Thank you.
You spoke about attracting excellence. Excellence is something that comes from individuals, not institutions.
Would you agree that the Canadian research funding system is currently targeting excellence in institutions, most of which are anglophone?
Research funding is therefore concentrated in the anglophone network, particularly among the universities that are members of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities.
As you just pointed out, 13 of these 15 universities are anglophone.
What needs to be done to achieve a more effective distribution of research funding to the small and medium-sized francophone universities to prevent francophones from having to exile themselves to the mainly anglophone higher education network that receives most of Canada's research funding?