In 1988 the Government of Canada, through Parliament, and the Government of Nova Scotia, through its legislature, passed the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act. In the federal act, section 4 was clear that this act takes precedence over other acts that apply to that region, and the Canada National Parks Act will be one of those acts in that region, so that act overrides the Canada National Parks Act, but we still maintain our authority to manage it as a national park. We are amending the accord act to put in place a drilling ban because it overrides, so you amend the act it overrides to put in place the legislative ban on drilling and to limit those activities that have been spelled out, including seismic, to low-impact.
When we started our negotiations with the Government of Nova Scotia, the two governments signed an MOU that very clearly stated that whatever decision was made with respect to how the island was going to be protected, they did not want to see adverse impact on the oil industry, and this provision under seismic was part of that understanding. But it goes back to section 4 of the accord act. That is the fundamental piece.