I see.
Allow me to highlight a few facts.
We noticed that a very significant proportion of funding was going to English research projects. Radio-Canada reporter Christian Noël wrote an article in May revealing that more than 95% of the funding awarded by the three granting agencies over the three-year period from 2019 to 2021 went to research projects that were carried out in English.
In its response to the committee's report, the government talked about the language proficiency of peer reviewers, the people on the review committees. You know that, currently, the language proficiency of evaluators is self-reported. This is an excerpt from the government's response: “Adding formal language proficiency or testing requirements would raise barriers to recruiting volunteers…”.
If I understand this correctly, the government has no problem with a reviewer's inability to read or understand a funding application in French because requiring that they be able to do so could mean not being able to recruit enough volunteers to review applications.
We are talking about millions or billions of dollars for scientific research. It's hardly trivial that the government doesn't even bother to check the language proficiency of the people who sit on the review committees and decide whether a research project gets funding or not.