Also, this is ALL on the production team. I've been on TV before and given interviews, and they ALWAYS tell you what they're going to ask before the cameras roll so as to give you a chance to think about your answers. This is to keep you from getting too nervous or from saying something dumb, or from just completely going blank. I'm going to assume that the biggest news station in Toronto would have the same protocol, but decided to either skip said protocol or get slick with it and sneak in a question Mike Tyson didn't know was coming. Either way, it was incompetence on the part of the news station.
Nathan Downer is a down ass brother in real life, and I hate it had to be him. Dude didn't deserve to be put in that spot, but he also should've refused to ask the question. Yeah, that's hard to do when you're on live and the question is coming through the earpiece, but still, there are times in life when you have to man up and do what's best for YOU, regardless of if it might fukk up your job/money/relationship/etc.