Justice committee  Thank you for the question. We consider anything that is currently undertaken in terms of sports betting that's occurring in Canada today, whether you call it grey market or black market in the U.S., or whether you call it illegal, in the Criminal Code, single-event wagering is

Justice committee  I think it will be dramatic. We have millions of customers coast to coast on our app. They love the app. They love our brand. They are getting news and content from us. Our research is saying that they're waiting for something like this to occur. Make it easy for them. Make it ef

Justice committee  Your question makes an important point. Hopefully, there's no confusion about this. We support an amendment to Bill C-218 so it basically follows the same approach as Bill C-13, which as written, did have protection for the horse-racing industry. My understanding is that the rac

Justice committee  Again, I think the issue must relate to what's in front of us right now, which is Bill C-218. What we want to focus on is that we don't want to do anything that's hurting the racing industry. What the amendment that we're proposing will do is it will leave the racing industry in

Justice committee  I think that's kind of the way we are. When we launched our TV network in Canada—and thank you for your question—we were up against the big boys here in Canada, too. We launched in the mid-1990s. TSN had a 10-year head start on us. Rogers was launching Sportsnet. We have never be

Justice committee  Absolutely. Our team has been part of the consultative process for the last year and a half. We're actually in one of those unique positions where we're able to talk about our experience in the States. One of the disadvantages of it not being legal in Canada is that we have these

Justice committee  I'll wave to you every day when we get out of COVID-19 as I'm commuting from Hamilton to Toronto.

Justice committee  Madam Chair, first of all, thank you for providing me with an opportunity to articulate our full support for Bill C-218 and the legalization of single-event sports betting in Canada. I'm proud to appear before you today on behalf of theScore, a Canadian innovation success story

Canadian Heritage committee  Just to clarify--

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. That's an important one, because I have to appear before those guys at the CRTC on a regular basis. When I'm talking about gatekeepers, I'm really referring more to people in business, the parties that are represented in front of the commission. The commission, the CRTC,

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, to try to reduce it to its simplest form, you simply have to make sure that those in control, those who are the gatekeepers, are not manipulating the technology to their own advantage and to the disadvantage of those who do not have the same controls. It's really a simple c

Canadian Heritage committee  Very.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's a belief in general. As I said, I've been hammered as a small cable guy. I've been hammered on both sides. We've lived that experience. We've struggled for access as a TV channel. When I was a cable guy, I was able to put my own channel on channel 18, just like everybody e

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. In terms of protection of branding, our whole mantra at our company is that we give up our brand. Unless everybody accepts who The Score is in the community.... I'm not out there protecting this thing. I'm not out there slamming people for using our brand. I want people to

Canadian Heritage committee  There are really two levels here. When we're talking about open access, we're really talking about access that, first of all, has to be transparent and open. It has to be broadly distributed throughout the country and accessible and not controlled in a way where a select few can