In Quebec, the Commission de protection du territoire agricole provides data on this issue. All that is documented in municipal registries. We are seeing that an increasing number of transactions involving farmland are carried out by investors rather than by producers. This means that more and more land is concentrated in the hands of certain large investors. I want to specify that those are Quebec investors, and not foreign investors. Their interest lies in renting out the land while they wait to potentially do something else with it.
This is a global phenomenon. It is not exclusive to Quebec. In Canada, Saskatchewan even adopted legislation to limit the sale of land to investment funds or insurance funds. Land acquisition by hedge funds is a global issue. The legislation currently favours this.