Thank you, Ms. Diab.
Much of what I have said and will probably say is related to the perspective of the Fédération acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse.
However, you are asking me my opinion as a former researcher. I have a number of publications to my credit. My work was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. I listened to a bit of the previous session and it was mentioned that the humanities were lagging behind. Personally, I am in a field where most of the specialists in Canada are from the Canadian francophonie. My research dealt precisely with the vitality of francophone minority communities, and more specifically with the role played by the French-language school in that vitality.
I have signed or cosigned 30 or 40 publications over the years. It is worth noting that the ones that are most often cited are far from being the best, but they are the two or three that are in English. Some granting councils, in particular the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, consider the impact factor to be very important. If my work had been reviewed by those councils based on that factor, I am not sure I would have received the grants I received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.