So legitimate accusations of salary cap circumvention;
https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/ex-eskim...-cap-1.4888697
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EDMONTON -- A former Edmonton Eskimos front office employee is suing the team for wrongful dismissal, and alleging he was also asked to help the club circumvent the Canadian Football League’s salary cap.
Kyle Thorne worked as the Eskimos director of human performance between February of 2018 and November of 2019.
Thorne says he was unfairly fired over an $800 accounting error and for refusing multiple requests from general manager Brock Sunderland to keep healthy players on the team’s injury list where they wouldn’t count against the team’s salary cap.
"It was super uncomfortable. It felt like I was being set up to be a fall guy if anything ever happened," Thorne said of the requests he says were made as a personal favour from the general manager.
The allegations are outlined in a statement of claim obtained by CTV News and filed in Alberta Court of Queen's Bench on April 2.
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Kind of sucks that Canadians have their own KHL and I'm really surprised the league hasn't been taken to task with all the cheating that goes on behind the scenes. Why have a salary cap and rules if they are not enforced? I love the CFL but I wish it wasn't such a bush league sport.