Thank you.
Because Sable Island is a fairly new national park, the legislation that created it is only a few years old; it was from 2013. Predating that was the Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act, which guides the exploration of oil and gas off the coasts of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. That particular piece of legislation contains a paramountcy clause, which says that legislation prevails over all other legislation.
Whereas the Canada National Parks Act is very clear that oil and gas exploration is not allowed to occur inside national park boundaries, in the single case of Sable Island in this case, another piece of legislation overrides it.
At the time Sable Island was being designated—and perhaps Kevin McNamee from Parks Canada might want to elaborate, as this was one of his files—CPAWS proposed a number of amendments to the offshore accord implementation act that matches the intention of the Canada National Parks Act—a very simple amendment that would say that oil and gas exploration is not allowed to occur on the island.