Earlier this month, the CFL sent the federal government a revised request for $42.5-million in aid after calling for up to $150-million in April in the event of a cancelled season
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On Friday, the league extended the deadline to this week as it awaited word on government assistance. But it appears both federal and provincial officials are also awaiting further certainty from the league regarding its ability to go ahead with an abbreviated 2020 campaign. The report added that players would begin travelling to Winnipeg – the CFL’s tentative hub city – Sept. 14, then have to pass two separate novel coronavirus tests over a six-day period in order to be allowed into the bubble. Training camps would begin after a six-day quarantine.
The BDC is a bank with lending criteria and the CFL is unlikely to qualify given its financial state. To secure financial assistance, the league would likely require the Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C. governments to serve as guarantors on any funding provided.
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