The broadcast of the game is a copyrighted property.  CTV paid for and owns the exclusive right to show the game in Canada.  The government is obligated to protect their property rights, exactly like how they are obligated to arrest people who break into my home.  

Would Yakabuski agree that his columns could be taken and reprinted by anyone?  Not likely.  Why would the Globe pay him if everything he wrote was available somewhere else?  He depends upon government enforcement of copyright law to make a living.

Why would he deny that protection to CTV?