Environment committee  CPAWS' approach on the issue of visitation, and what we have been encouraging Parks Canada to do, is to bring the Sable Island experience to people, and not people to Sable Island. It's a remote piece of geography and it's very difficult to get to. It's very sensitive.The overwhe

Environment committee  Yes, I can respond to that. From our perspective, Sable Island is this incredibly sensitive ecosystem. It's a sand island located a couple of hundred kilometres off the coast of Nova Scotia in the rough North Atlantic. It's a sensitive ecosystem, so the potential for impacts occ

Environment committee  Yes, I can respond to that. As an organization, CPAWS is opposed to any oil and gas activity occurring on Sable Island or in any national park. On the specific issue of precedent, that's a bit different, because it has to do with the stacking of the two pieces of legislation,