Canadian Heritage committee  Actually, I first came to Canada in 2002. I came to coach the Hurricanes in the WHL. I moved out of Finland in 1985.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's a very, very good question and I hope I can be very short with my answer. It's kind of a long answer, but I'll try to make it short. If you compare, in Europe there are so many players and in Canada we have so many players, and there are so many players falling through t

Canadian Heritage committee  That is so true, and that is the most difficult part of this whole structure, in my opinion. We were talking about getting good coaching and qualified coaching at the grassroots, but that is almost impossible. I hear a lot of talk about how an educated coach is asked to coach an

Canadian Heritage committee  We are Canada-wide, actually worldwide. We have had players from Finland, Sweden, the United States. We now have Canadian girls from Newfoundland to Kelowna. This is an elite program, for sure. We're very proud of what we've done in the last 10 years. The difficult part is the

Canadian Heritage committee  No, we are kind of a bouncing ball for the girls to go to the NCAA or CIS. That's what they come here for. This is kind of preparing them for their post-secondary education. It's very important for them to come to a place like this. We've been very successful in placing girls in

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you for having me here today. It's a very difficult task for sure to follow that kind of act. That was very well done. I'll try to keep my portion very short so we can get to the questioning. In hockey we maybe don't have as much of a problem with the facilities, even tho