mayors of Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto, also the biggest cities of Canada then and now, with two of them hosting teams from leagues that played a different code of football. Montreal played host to one of the World League of American Football teams, the Montréal Machine, in the early 1990s after their CFL team folded in the late 1980s. Toronto were hosts to an Arena Football League team for two seasons, the Toronto Phantoms. After the bill passed second reading in the House of Commons of Canada, it was given to the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Social Affairs, where it effectively died after the Northmen moved to Memphis. Clause 6 in the Act stated that no person that owns, operates, or manages a team in a league foreign from the CFL shall play in Canada. Subsection 2 stated that no player or member of the said team shall play in Canada, therefore if the bill passed and became law, it would effectively kill teams like the Northmen. These facts were gathered from the actual debates held in the House of Commons from April 10 to April 28, 1974. See also List of football teams in Canada Canadian cultural protectionism National Football League in Toronto References Football act Canadian football History of the Canadian Football League Canadian federal legislation Canadian football in Toronto World Football League Sports law Competition law Proposed laws of Canada Football act