Making the researchers individually responsible means expecting a lot from them, because there is an international model for publishing this way. Instead, we need Canada-wide assistance to encourage bringing research in French together. That calls for scientific publishing, which itself calls for scientific journals.
Being involved in a francophone science and environment journal, an international open access journal, I can tell you that managing a non-commercial francophone journal is a heavy burden to bear, on top of our jobs, to the point of being kind of scientific volunteer work. It is hard to operate those journals. Canada-wide assistance for francophone publishing could be, first, a way of somewhat counteracting this slowdown of science in French.
The recommendations in the 2021 Acfas report spoke volumes. French very simply needs to be promoted as a language of science. At the international level, numerous studies have shown the effect of what are called national languages, be they Portuguese or Spanish, that are often used only in the country, while the international language is English. At present, I think French can and must play an international role. Canada, with a stronger association, could help us in that regard.