I don't know of any federally managed pastures in your area, madam. These are predominantly in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with a couple in Alberta, where the PFRA some 40 or 50 years ago took over the management of provincially owned land. We have never owned the land. This is provincially owned land. All we did was to provide management services. We put in infrastructure during the 1930s, when provinces were strapped, to make sure that these had fences, and water, and handling corrals, and so on, and continued in that vein until the last couple of years.
There's been a growing concern from the patrons of some of these pastures that they weren't as effectively used as they could be, that new and beginning farmers could not get through the old boys' club to get cattle into those pastures. The best way, in our estimate, was to turn the management back to the provinces, who now actually own more pastures than we do, which they've developed over the years and have the capacity to manage.
I've been assured by each of the provinces involved that the pastures will remain as pastures, under the same rules and regulations that were applied during the years they were under federal management.