That seems silly, what's wrong with every team offering players who become available a contract and the player can choose which team to go to?
In a sense they are forcing those players to go only to 1 CFL team if they want to join the CFL.

So last season when Chris Jones went on a scouting tour and picked up players, does it mean that some of them were on our list? Or maybe that all of them weren't on anyone's list?