If you were to ask us where improvements might be made, I would say it's obvious that something has to be done that would give us an advantage. Money is needed. We are in a research reinvestment phase. It's an opportunity to come up with ground rules that would be more beneficial to small and medium-sized universities and French-language universities across Canada.
What's at issue is the country's collective wealth. If all the best paid and most stimulating jobs require a university degree, often at the graduate or postgraduate level, the country's wealth is also tied to that. But the francophone population of approximately 9 million out of Canada's total population of 41 million is under-represented in terms of research, research funding and the number of graduate students.
That being the case, it's obvious that part of Canada's population is condemned to a lower level of economic wealth than the other part of the population unless something is done to change this state of affairs, which is currently structural.