From our history, what we learned was.... I'll use the analogy that when we filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau in 2018 on a certain clause that was in the player contract, there was $500,000 release fee that was mandated if the player in the CHL wanted to leave the league to go to play in any other league other than the National Hockey League. Under section 48 of that act, it's clear that the law says that it's a criminal indictable offence if an organization imposes an unreasonable restriction upon an athlete. What we got back from the Competition Bureau was a four-year delay in determining what was unreasonable. They could not determine if $500,000 was unreasonable and they said that the law was imposed in 1975 and that no one had ever acted upon it, so now we're going to change the law. We're not going to act on that.
The time frame that happened with that was impossible to understand. We filed a complaint in 2018, the Department of Justice did an investigation in 2019, and then we heard nothing until Hockey Canada got called to the mat at the heritage committee hearings for the abuse and the payment of funds. I got a call on Canada Day, over a long weekend, from the investigating officer at Heritage Canada telling me that they're not going to act on the complaint. To me that was unacceptable—for it to take four years to find out if someone could determine if it were unreasonable to ask $500,000 from a 16-year-old when he only makes $50 a week. This is the action that we got—and this is not the only area that was there in this regard.
I don't even think that we need more laws. We have enough laws; we just have to enforce them. No one enforces them because they're NSOs they believe in.