In the budget brought down by the governing Conservatives on 19 March, 2007, the Canadian federal government allocated $5m seed money over the next two years for the establishment of a National Trust, to be modelled after the British body, said the Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty...
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/ ... trust.html
http://www.intbau.org/news.htm#NTC210307
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2007 ... 1-sun.html
Heritage Canada disappointed in Budget:
http://www.heritagecanada.org/eng/news/new.html#budget