In answer to your last one, there's a huge pressure there not to be able to give it to the next generation. There's a huge tax disincentive there, to go back to the dollars. Your first point is tremendous. You live in a part of the country where you have six and seven generations. Out here on the prairies, we might be getting close to that, but we're not quite there yet. You've had many more generations on the east coast than we have here, or in Ontario or other parts of Canada.
That continuity is so tremendous. To answer your question, it's the heart of many communities. It's what keeps them going. We have had many successful foreign purchases of farms or small businesses in Canada. Those people become part of those communities. But if there's an offshore purchase through a type of multi-corporation that just rents the land out to people who don't have the same investiture in the success of it, many times we've seen that fail.
I think it is so important to make sure that we still allow that sort of foreign land purchase. You don't want to restrict the families when they're selling these businesses, the same as any small business. However, whether it's a farm, as in your example, or a shoe store, I think it's very important that we provide them with every opportunity to be able to have the continuity that I spoke of in reply to Mr. Julian's question. It's not just important for the small community or for the exports, but tremendously important for the local region.