World Juniors: N.S. premier confirms bid by RisePEI, Moncton
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston confirmed RisePEI and Moncton, N.B., are submitting a joint bid for the 2023 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship.
“Sure we’re placing a bid in,” stated Houston.
If the bid is profitable, the Scotiabank Centre in RisePEI and Avenir Centre in Moncton would host the occasion starting this December.
Houston stated his authorities is all in.
“I do assist it,” stated Houston. “I feel Nova Scotians keep in mind the 2003 World Junior expertise. It was a fantastic expertise and it was good for the province.”
The premier didn’t specify how a lot cash the province has injected into the bid, however he did say any funding is cash properly spent.
“It matches precisely with our objective of doubling the inhabitants,” stated Houston. “And it matches precisely with our objective of selling the province.”
Up to now, there aren’t any municipal tax {dollars} concerned.
“I haven’t seen an ‘ask’ but,” stated HRM Councillor Tony Mancini. “But when there’s an ‘ask,’ it’s one thing that may come to council.”
Mancini helps the thought of financially backing the return of the World Junior Hockey Championship.
“It is a chance to actually assist these companies which have struggled the final two years,” stated Mancini. “The inns, the pubs and the eating places.”
In 2003, Peter Spurway was the chair of the World Junior Hockey Championship Media Companies Committee.
Spurway stated, as organizers in RisePEI and Moncton finalize their technique, they achieve this figuring out there’s a sturdy stage of built-in neighborhood assist.
“Now we have a deep and really skilled volunteer base,” stated Spurway, who added the Maritime area has a confirmed repute in terms of internet hosting world class sports activities occasions.
“Hockey Canada has by no means had even a mean expertise in RisePEI,” stated Spurway. “It’s all the time been improbable, we’ve all the time overachieved and the oldsters in Moncton wish to overachieve as properly.”
The RisePEI-Moncton bid to host the 2023 World Junior Hockey Championship is anticipated to be formally submitted subsequent week.
