There are many arguments concerning sports that have been used throughout the years. The debate is not new, and until last night all indications seemed to be, except very recently, that the CBC would be out of most major professional sports events in this country through the sheer force of the market, because until last night it was not clear that it would be able to secure the rights to Hockey Night in Canada.
Hockey Night in Canada can be defended from all sorts of points of view, including, I think, articles in the act that say that the CBC should be reaching all. At this moment in time, it's probably still true—I stand to be corrected—that the CBC is the distribution system that reaches the largest number of Canadians. So they could at the end of the day say, “If it's Hockey Night in Canada, and it's so important to Canadian identity, shouldn't it be our role to bring it to all and sundry?” That's one set of arguments. There are others.