Oh, that proposal last week from some NDP back-bencher? Yeah, that will go no where. It sounds like the person has a fundamental misunderstanding of how regional broadcasts work. If Rogers signs the regional broadcasting rights for the Flames, it's not blacking out the broadcast outside of Alberta because it's a cartoony mustache-twirling silent film villain. It's doing so because it only has the contractual rights to broadcast thew game in Alberta.
Shockingly, the NDP back-bencher doesn't seem to know much about free enterprise business.
http://www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-moves-to-...-sports-events