We seem to have reached a serious and fundamental impasse,

We're encouraged that Mr. Harper appears to have taken some of our concerns into account. If Mr. Harper is serious about making this Parliament work, we will be open to working with him.

People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.

They didn't get a terrific report about going to impasse. If you don't go to impasse and you want to start your season up, then you're going with total replacement players, and that is a tough road. For instance, if you could find some Europeans that are not on a team's reserve list, they wouldn't be able to get visas. I think both sides have now sat back and said, 'We need each other.

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