<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi folks</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.84375px;">Institutional investors are extremely interested in Canadian land, which is far cheaper than in much of the world. </span><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera
Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.84375px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.84375px;">Ontario, British Columbia and other, smaller Canadian provinces have no restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.84375px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:
12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.84375px;">An unnamed investor with a US management company recently acquired almost four per cent of Nova Scotia’s land mass.<br></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.84375px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height:
17.84375px;">Land grabs in Canada have not been well-documented. Provinces do not keep inventory on large-scale land acquisitions.<br></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.84375px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.84375px;">There are also speculations that buying Canadian farmland may be a smokescreen for access to fields of potash, oil and gas.<br></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream
Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.84375px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.84375px;">“Around the world a lot of land grabbing is actually about gaining control of water, which is far more scarce than land; without water, you cannot farm, and a lot of land grabbers are from water scarce countries. This has been acknowledged by the head of Nestle.”<br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Read the full article here: </div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/content/land-grabs-canadian-connection</font><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lulu </font></div></div></body></html>