Thank you for your question, but I believe Mr. Surette is in a somewhat better position to answer it than I am.
We are grateful for the support we receive, but we need more and we need it to be more formative. There are a lot of costs associated with working in French. In addition, since we live in an anglophone community, our collaborations with the scientific community are often in English.
I have alluded to support in connection with collaboration. For example, the universities in Halifax often find the collaborators they need across the street. In our case, we have to find them in Ontario or, often, in Quebec, and this involves costs.
We have the support of the government of Quebec for those kinds of partnerships with Quebec. We would like to have more support from the federal government for our collaboration activities. We would particularly like it to recognize the additional burden they create for us in our context, in connection with the mobility of master's and doctorate students and of researchers, and the frequent obligation to do it in both official languages.