I'm delighted to know that you are an author yourself and receive royalties from your writing. You will understand that if an excerpt from one of your books is used in an educational institution in Quebec, you will receive royalties through Access Copyright, which is our partner, but if your work is used in a Canadian university, you will probably not receive royalties.
The unique feature of Quebec lies in the fact that its government adopted a unanimous motion to defend copyright. So when the time comes to negotiate licences with educational institutions in Quebec, the general state of mind means that the institutions have not yet dared to withdraw completely from copyright. However, the royalties have still fallen by half in the last ten years, and we do get the feeling that the educational institutions are looking at the rest of Canada and saying that ultimately they too should maybe just withdraw and save money on this point. It's a matter of time.
The Copyright Act is a federal statute. It is not a practice that goes on in Quebec at the moment, and that is supported, but there is nothing to prevent the educational institutions from simply withdrawing tomorrow, as the rest of Canada has done.