Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Maltais, in your address, you gave a very clear picture of the research funding imbalance in Canada and said that it put francophones at a disadvantage, and even amounted to a form of discrimination against them.
I'll give you the following example. In Quebec, where most francophones in Canada live, some anglophone universities, although they are not part of a linguistic minority, receive more funding than the francophone universities. That doesn't necessarily make sense.
Quebec's majority francophone population needs funding for its research.
If we compare that situation to the way things stand in New Brunswick and Alberta, the Université de Moncton and Campus Saint-Jean find themselves in the same minority context, but receive far less funding.
How do you, as someone here to represent French-speaking researchers, explain that?