Yes, for sure. Our position has always been that they should have been considered federal employees. They cross borders. They play internationally, across the U.S. border. They play within provincials...and we believe they should be considered federal employees. That would be the easiest thing to solve that issue of classifying these players as employees of the clubs.
Remember, the federal government already classified CHL players as employees in the 2001 Canada Revenue Agency court case, which held up upon appeal. However, no one ever enforced that these players were employees. In fact, it went the other way. The provincial governments said they were going to disregard the federal and were going to say, after the laws were changed, in order to mitigate damages in a class action lawsuit for non-compliance and wage and hour theft, they'd stop the clock from running and allow the teams to get off.