CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston did a lot of talking in Winnipeg on Friday. How much he listened is another story.

The first-year league boss held the annual state-of-the-CFL address, a media Q & A that always starts with the commish gushing about how well things are going.

The former TV exec says scoring is soaring, games are going down to the wire and quarterbacks are on fire.

That doesn’t sound like a league that needs controversial rule changes that cut at the heart of what makes it Canadian.

Yet Johnston is plowing ahead with what he announced in September without consulting coaches, GMs, players or fans, including the shrinking of the field to 100 yards, the moving of the goal posts to the back of end zones, and the shortening of end zones to 15 yards.

I reminded him what some

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