Canadian Heritage committee  Ten years.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's correct.

Canadian Heritage committee  The players are not paid.

Canadian Heritage committee  We started by raising it through sponsorship. That was 95% of the entire revenue coming in. We now have it split. We bring in donations and do fundraisers, but the gates are the biggest part of it. We've now started to build the community where each team is, and in that community

Canadian Heritage committee  Currently with all of those added in, it's about 25% of the entire $1.8 million in revenue that we bring in. For us to continue, it has to go a lot higher than that, for sure, for the revenue.

Canadian Heritage committee  And Calgary and Toronto.

Canadian Heritage committee  Ten years ago, we used to get me, all my friends and relatives, and anybody you could drag in through the door.

Canadian Heritage committee  One of the greatest things this year—actually, last year was when it really started—I walked into Toronto's opening game, which had almost 1,000 people at it. I didn't know anybody, and I was bloody happy. In Montreal last year, at the playoffs, Montreal played Toronto in Montrea

Canadian Heritage committee  One of the greatest things for any female sport and male sport, and more important than being a professional, earning money at the NHL and everything else, is hometown heroes. You can live forever in your community as a hometown hero, whether you're playing on the local baseball

Canadian Heritage committee  What we are seeing right now with these sports broadcasters is that they are doing male sports. We are putting in a female broadcaster, yet we don't have them doing the play-by-play yet—which is coming, they tell me. We are seeing them, but they are not sitting in Ron MacLean's c

Canadian Heritage committee  I think the way we've learned, through the research of trying to grow the youth game—and we've just come up with it this year—is that we're hosting the first ever Clarkson Cup peewee championship. We're trying to bring peewee teams from across Canada to Ottawa, because this is wh

Canadian Heritage committee  We are a professional league, but at the same time, we're a not-for-profit because none of the women are paid, so we're still in there, Nancy, as the amateurs in a lot of different ways. Things like when the BMO Field was built, things like when NHL teams partner with cities, p

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, committee members, for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. The Canadian Women's Hockey League is the only professional women's sport league in Canada, and we're the second oldest in North America, next to the WNBA. Our 2016-17 se

Canadian Heritage committee  I'll give you my notes at the end. Again, thank you for the time.