We have to assure researchers, research teams and applicants that their applications will be properly analyzed and evaluated. We had an example of this yesterday: the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada assured us this was the case.
Some things are obvious. If a person studies artificial intelligence in English, it might be difficult to draft a proposal in French. That is why one of my first recommendations was on teaching French and education in French.
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to read the bibliography of a Canadian personality known internationally for their work in artificial intelligence and I noticed that 90%, or almost all of the publications were in English, when the person is a francophone and even a polyglot, who lives in a francophone city. However, their discipline is in English.