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The Alouettes knew the possibility existed that their struggling offence would be forced to operate one of these weeks without suspended receiver Duron Carter. And perhaps it’s only fitting the penalty should be upheld when Montreal is playing the Ottawa Redblacks.

But considering it took the independent arbitrator nearly two weeks to render his decision, upholding Carter’s suspension, Jim Popp wonders why the Canadian Football League waited until after one of the team’s two practices, on a short week, to make the announcement?

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“The tough thing for us as a team is the timing of it. I know it happened on a Monday, but it’s not the beginning of the week for us. When you’ve already had meetings and one of your only two practices, it becomes a team scenario when it’s an individual being disciplined. That’s the tough thing,” the Alouettes’ general manager and head coach said Tuesday, following practice at Stade Hébert.