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TORONTO — Randy Ambrosie’s eyes light up and you can hear the passion in every word as he talks about his vision for the future of the Canadian Football League.

He’s been on the job as CFL commissioner for a little over four months and has been widely praised for making an immediate impact with his decisiveness, his willingness to make changes to rules and player safety policy, and his league’s campaign to promote diversity.

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Without even the benefit of a full season at the helm, Ambrosie has injected some life into the CFL and has embraced a simple concept as he looks toward the years ahead: Think big.

“We literally need to set our sights on a big, gigantic, enormous Canadian Football League,” Ambrosie said during a wide-ranging interview with Postmedia on Wednesday. “That can solve so many problems.

“What I’ve seen in these last four months is I’m working with a group of governors who are deeply committed to the future, working with a group of team presidents who are overwhelmingly cool guys who want this game to grow and be stronger. I want to engage them all in a conversation about not how do we take this game to the next level, but five levels from here, where this is the most important league in this country, the most important game in this country, because it’s our game.”