I want to support this as well.
I think Canadians from coast to coast to coast have been outraged by some of what we've seen on television. We saw a terrible hit to the head again last night in a hockey game. It doesn't seem that the message is getting through. I went to a senior AAA hockey game in Peterborough on Friday night and saw a boarding that easily could have been called hitting to the head, but it was a horrible five-minute boarding penalty. We're seeing people copy what they're seeing on television.
It was reprehensible, not just the hit that we saw in Montreal, which Zdeno Chara was on one end of giving.... I want to put on the record what bothered me most about it. It's extraordinary when you see sponsors indicating that they're considering pulling back sponsorship for something, but I thought the commissioner of the NHL in his response to that was insulting to the feelings of Canadians. This is our national sport. I thought he demonstrated an arrogance in his answer that wasn't fitting.
Canadians are concerned about some of these things they see happening in their game. Those things are not part of the game. The game has always been tough. It has always been competitive. It has always demonstrated a lot of what we hold dear and how we define ourselves as Canadians, but it's never been cheap, and some of this stuff is nothing but cheap shots.