Everyone looks at minor league and junior hockey and gets excited. But look at baseball, which is a hell of a lot further along up here than soccer is.

There are hugely successful AAA baseball teams in MSAs that look a lot like CPL cities, eg Louisville, Oklahoma City, Sacramento, Columbus. So you'd think there would be a decent level of success of AAA baseball after 50 years of MLB in Canada. But every attempt (Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa) has been a dismal failure.

(The one team that is kinda sorta a success is Winnipeg's independent league team, which is way below AAA)

Canada is funny. I don't see how the CPL can work.