The Canadian Soccer League is undeniably a minor soccer league. However, it is also considered to be Canada's top level soccer league as a whole.

For those unfamiliar with the CSL, it's a league run mostly in southern Ontario with the Montreal Impact Academy team being the lone exception to that. London City is the local entry, and there are other teams in Windsor and throughout the GTA.

The CSL tags itself as professional, but it doesn't offer many things a professional league would offer — one of those things being actual professional salaries.

The league isn't well organized, and the Canadian Soccer Association (the league's governing body) knows that. That's why the CSA is looking at dropping their sanctioning of the CSL, giving the league a renegade status on the Canadian soccer landscape.

The CSA recently released a report regarding the viability of a new “Division Two”-style league for Canada. The “Two” refers to a league ranked somewhere beneath North American's highest division: Major League Soccer (MLS). The proposed league would become one of many similar leagues such as the United Soccer League and the North American Soccer League (NASL).

But why add another league? Currently, Canada has entities in American-based leagues, which have American-based ideas of development (FC Edmonton plays in the NASL, for example). If Canada had their own league, they could focus on their own concerns regarding player development. Plus, we would have more teams for young players to play on. Under this new model, the provincial soccer associations would run semi-pro leagues.

The CSA is ready to ditch the Canadian Soccer League, but it doesn't have any solid groundwork in place for a new league. They shouldn't ditch the only “pro” league they have without a proper plan. Of course, the CSL has been plagued with match fixing and generally bad business over the years, but getting up and walking away is not the right option here.

Canada is currently set to host the 2015 Women's World Cup, something many are calling a huge stepping stone for soccer in this country. However, if the CSA pulls the plug on the CSL, Canada won't even have a professional soccer league at all (a requirement by FIFA to host the tournament).

There is room for the CSL, as creating a renegade league would only cause possible players to avoid the league — and possibly soccer itself — in the near future.