In terms of barriers, today we know that 80% of federal research funding goes to the U15 universities, which include 15 universities located in major urban centres, and 13 of those universities are anglophone. The smaller francophone universities are often based in our regions and receive much less than they should, despite the recognized scientific merit of their researchers.
Would you support specific fixes, such as caps, earmarked funding, incentives or a reform of the research support fund, to ensure that merit is recognized everywhere, not just in large English-speaking urban centres?