Thank you for the question.
The program for ecological gifts is limited to ecologically sensitive land. The way the federal government and provincial governments have a say in the criteria for what is ecologically sensitive very often includes the protection of agricultural land as land that qualifies as being ecologically sensitive. There are a number of land trusts, in fact, that are farmland trusts. Their objective is to protect prime.... It's not necessarily agricultural land in a commercial sense. Certainly, farmland trusts do exist, and if they meet the ecological sensitivity criteria, they are the subject of a number of ecological gifts.
There's a great big gift, out in Alberta, of one of the original ranches from back at the turn of the century. That ranch is now going to be preserved in perpetuity as grazing land and as ranch land, and it will be protected from the development coming out of Calgary.