http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Football_League#Players_and_compensation
This is a good read on the player salaries and salary cap for CFL.
Although it is wikipedia, it is referenced so it should be fairly accurate.
It is much the same as the NRL, except the CFL have 40-42 players, compared to NRL's 25.
Minimum wage of $42 000, with a salary cap of about $4.5 million.
Hopefully, one day, the CRL will get to say a championship 1 level, in regards to salaries (of course a long way down the track), and that should coincide with media coverage, sponsors, and govt grants.
I wouldn't think it would be an impossible scenario for that to be achieve in 10-20 years time.
Meanwhile, the CRL has done an incredible amount in their 2 years of activity. And if they think they can work alongside rugby union, good on them. Players can still play both sports, and i think there will be more players interested if a CRL player who plays union on the saturday tells his team mates about the game the next day on a sunday. Expansion could definitely happen in 2013.
I wouldn't go higher than 6 teams in each conference, maybe 8 tops if it can be sustained. But 6 in each conference, with the winner of each playing the other at the conclusion of the season would be un real.
Would generate a bit of attention too.
If you go on the North Vancouver or maybe the South Surrey RL team facebook page, they have put up a pic of a newspaper article reporting on their first game. That's a good start.
