I try to follow the committee a bit and I didn't hear that one. That's new to me.
The idea of blinding the proposer's name is fine. It's probably a good idea. In terms of blinding the number of papers published, at least for SSHRC, we're looking at both the proposal itself for the challenge criteria but also for the capability criteria. You're basically scoring their CV. What's their track record in publishing papers? I don't know how you're supposed to do that unless you want to separate those two parts out, which might be feasible. It adds a little bit to the administration, but it's not a bad idea.