Studies show that, all things being equal, grants, even small ones, are important. That is, productivity doesn't increase tenfold when the grant is ten times higher. So what is important is to be able to provide post-docs who have been trained for research, everywhere in Canada and in the institutions in major centres, with the minimum resources for doing research. That means that we will be able to put a majority, if not all, of our post-docs whose brains are trained for research to work.
I think that programs in the various granting agencies that will reach out to these researchers to put them into action, this will be a factor that will change the future when it comes to potential.
There is also another important factor: the smallest institutions are often less focused on health, since they don't have faculties of medicine. We have to be able to recognize that health research takes various forms and also support it in all its forms, even if an institution doesn't have a faculty of medicine.
That is another way of doing things differently, of innovating, all over, and finding solutions tailored to the various regions of Canada.