I'll try to respond in French.
Personally, I don't think that personal characteristics have anything to do with excellence. Excellence in research has nothing to do with personal characteristics such as gender or race. I'm not a better or worse researcher because I'm Chinese, male or heterosexual. That has nothing to do with it. Frankly, it's a discriminatory and racist idea that produces absurd results.
For example, last year, in 2024, the University of British Columbia announced the federal government's establishment of a Canada research chair in research on oral cancer, meaning cancer of the mouth. Candidates had to be people with disabilities, Indigenous people, racialized people, women or people from sexual minority identity groups. I find it frankly absurd to say that a white man can't conduct research on oral cancer. It's irrelevant. Moreover, this type of thing undermines public confidence in research in Canada.