They're actually moving away from this role. I'm thinking of the big, mostly anglophone universities. The University of Alberta, for example, advertises its bilingualism, but, when it comes to supporting its researchers and really encouraging that research, it simply doesn't do it.
We don't have access to the same services as our anglophone colleagues. That's the case at many universities, and it's often the case that there aren't a lot of resources for researchers at small francophone institutions where research departments are just starting up, as at the Université de l'Ontario français. Many English-language universities are completely abandoning their role and don't understand the particular role of our institutions, which exist to meet the needs of the community, but also to support the francophonie.
The western Canadian francophonie would be at a great loss without the Campus Saint-Jean in Edmonton. The same is true of the Cité universitaire francophone at the University of Regina. Communities and services are attached to these campuses, and that creates an ecosystem in which the francophonie becomes legitimate and possible. That's what must be encouraged.