Thank you.
I'd start by thanking you for your question and pointing out the fact that those numbers you quoted relating to our three community teams refer only to part of the CFL story. Of course, while those numbers were positive in 2018, as you referenced, are going to be dramatically different in 2020 as we face the very real scenario of, at best, a truncated season, and then possibly a completely lost season.
In the face of essentially a zero-revenue model, all of our teams, including our community teams, are going to suffer significant losses that will be hard to recover from. We have great strength in those community teams, but again, it's only part of the story because we've got private owners and corporate owners who have invested not for the sake of a great return, but they've really invested in Canada and Canadian culture and Canadian sport. I call them sports philanthropists, but there is a limit to the amount of support they and their families are prepared to give. The real issue is that this crisis is essentially going to quadruple, or more than that, the financial losses our teams will take in a season that could potentially be lost altogether.
Again, I want to be clear on behalf of my league and our owners, our board of governors, that we are not looking for a handout. We're not. We're really looking for a partnership with government. We're looking for a solution. We believe that we can sit at the table and talk about a way to work together that will get us through the crisis so we can resume our activities, working with our players as partners. We've resumed our discussions with the players. We know we have work to do there, but ultimately I think everyone associated with our league can agree on one thing: everyone wants this league to survive.