Thank you, Mr. Levy.
You will tell me that it may not be possible, but I would like to understand the reasoning behind this. The horse racing industry is an expensive industry, we agree. Horses have to be bought and bred, feed has to be bought, jockeys have to be paid, and so on. Sport is an expensive business. You only have to look at the salaries of hockey players. They are not trivial. It costs tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars per team to pay staff and athletes. Since there are also significant costs in the horse racing industry, I would like to understand why there would be a different regime there than for other sports.
I understand that there are accommodations to be made. If a province is managing sports betting, for example, on all the sports activities in their jurisdiction, there may have to be a way to share the revenue with the teams and so on. I understand that.
However, why should the horse racing industry be treated differently than others?
I'm not saying I'm against it, I just want to understand.