After Liberal Member of Parliament Peter Fragiskatos told TSN's Rick Westhead it would be 'alarming' if any potential federal aid given to the Canadian Football League was used to pay American players living in the United States, a number of American CFLers took to Twitter to respond to Fragiskatos' comments.

"It's alarming that he would feel this way about U.S. players," BC Lions QB Mike Reilly tweeted. "I have been paying Canadian taxes for a decade now. Have two daughters with Canadian birth certificates. Spent hundreds of hours giving back to Canadian communities. As have all CFL players, both Canadian and American.

"We American players in the CFL have paid our dues, earned our keep in the league and country," SirVincent Rogers tweeted. "Anything CFL has everything to do with us all inclusively. No time for political nonsense! We are a united front with skin in the game as players. Period."

"But we Americans still have to pay taxes in Canada just as the Canadians do, in some cases more!' Hamilton Tiger-Cats QB Dane Evans tweeted. "So why would we not be eligible to receive the same benefits of the rest of the tax-paying employees in the CFL?"

CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie has met with the federal government and asked for up to $150 million in financial aid if the 2020 CFL season gets cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.