Canada(/province-specific?): What (if any) special status do religion / religious-organizations have? eg, any differences between a "church"/"monastery" vs organizations like a co-op/charity/non-profit/etc, in terms of set-up, running, taxes, owning land, etc etc? (compare/contrast USA?)

What (if any) special status do religion / religious-organizations have in Canada?
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And is there anything province-specific?
-- I'm interested first about BC, but not only about BC.
(Also vaguely curious about the situation in the USA, since Canadian culture is full of ideas from second-hand pop-cultural osmosis from the US.)
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Like, are there any differences between a religious organization like a "church"/"monastery"
vs organizations like a co-op / a charity / a non-profit / any-other-relevant-distinct-types-of-organization-I'm-missing-here
in terms of set-up and running?
(like, taxes, owning/acquiring land or other property, accepting donations (monetary or otherwise), doing business, etc etc?)

To construct a toy-example:

Imagine you wanted to set up a "monastery", by:

  • buying a plot of land and building the monastery on it

  • having the "monks"/"nuns" live there and support themselves by, I dunno, making and selling bread or whatever

  • having the monastery owned by the religious organization
    (with it being the "monks"/"nuns" living there who are the members of that organization, the actual humans controlling the legal entity)

Is there any way in which this would be different from some other organization (like a co-op) which otherwise worked the same way?

Second, assuming there would be some advantages...
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that is, taking the toy example again,
pretend that you did want to set up some sort of organization similar to a co-op/commune,
where the members of the organization could live and work on property owned by that organization...
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-- assuming there would be some advantages to having said organization count as "religious",
could you obtain that religious status simply by... the members simply declaring that they have a shared "sincere" spirituality or something??