With regard to the issue of the men's versus the women's league; it's not men's “versus” or men's “or”. It's an issue of sequencing. In fact, as was testified earlier, the first investment that Canada Soccer made in a league was in the National Women’s Soccer League. For almost nine or 10 years, as I recall, we subsidized the compensation of our national team players in that league. That league occurred before the arrangement of CSB and the CPL.
Let me also clarify that Canada Soccer does not own, operate or run leagues. What we do is sanction leagues. Private investors come in. We have a minimum standard in terms of what is required to launch a league, and then there are investors. The sequencing is actually our investment in the NWSL for approximately nine or 10 years. Then the CPL came into play, which, yes, is a men's league, but that was also as a precursor for our bid to host the men's World Cup in 2026.
Then there's the opportunity we've found at Canada Soccer to now prioritize the development of a women's league. We appointed a head of women's professional soccer at Canada Soccer, so that she can liaise with private investors and so that there is a smooth transition to the sanctioning that will be necessary for the proposed new women's league, where there is one group of investors—one Project 8 group—that is expecting to kick a ball in a couple of years' time.