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It’s extremely unlikely the court will rule before game day on Feb. 5, so the NFL is turning up the political pressure in hopes of getting action before the broadcast.

“When you want to get something done – and we do – we are using all the tools in our tool box, that is up to and including reaching out to the Prime Minister’s Office,” said Jocelyn Moore, the NFL’s D.C.-based senior vice president of government affairs.

To Moore’s knowledge, this marks the first time the NFL has registered to lobby the Canadian government. The NFL started fighting the policy through the courts after the CRTC first floated the idea in 2015. The rules were changed without the opportunity for consultation, with the uncertainty making it difficult to conduct business, Moore said.

“It would be one thing if this were a policy that were a broad policy that didn’t just apply to one entity, the NFL, and one broadcast, the Super Bowl,” Moore said.

Moore wouldn’t reveal what was said in private conversations with politicians and political staffers, but said the NFL is taking “every appropriate step” to try to get the decision overturned before the 2017 Super Bowl. She remains optimistic, noting that the government has changed since the policy was introduced.

“We’ve been trying to deal with this since it happened. The Trudeau administration is not the same administration as the one that implemented this,” she said.