Thank you for the question.
We have to consider the specific fields and populations that each agency serves. Studies on the Francophonie, studies on minority language communities anywhere in the world.... There's a higher percentage of SSH researchers who work on these questions, so there's a higher pool.
In an answer I gave before, when I was talking about the historical legacies, I mentioned that 40 years ago it was difficult to have more than a few courses if you were doing a Bachelor of Science degree outside Quebec, even at the University of Ottawa or Laurentian University. In other provinces, the access wasn't there. There's also catching up to where things are. It's about recognizing the differences in our populations, and I think that's more associated with us. However, I have very little control over the choices made by individuals.
I think there was a moment in time—well, I don't need to think, I lived it as a researcher—when there were, perhaps, questions about how things were done. However, there's been a lot of work done, particularly over the past 14 years. I saw it in my own funding applications: I was often not funded, but the feedback I got became better and better. It's about slowly building up trust for people to attempt writing in a language that they, perhaps, haven't used enough professionally. There are very complex issues at play.
Within our constituency, there are more researchers, like Madame Cardinal and others, for whom this is where they work and this is where they live. This could explain a variation of that, but I haven't done a study.
