How hard was it to find volunteers for the Hockey Canada Cup?
For the Hockey Canada Cup, we have a workforce of approximately 280, including 190 volunteers. Hockey being as big as it is in Canada, it wasn’t particularly hard to get volunteers. People know how big the next step is, so we were able to find the proper people to run our programs. The biggest difficulty is for people to take time off from work. Many of them have even travelled and found accommodations at their own expense in order to be part of this. I’m very impressed with the type of commitment these volunteers are willing to give. And how many volunteers will you need for the Olympics for hockey? For hockey specifically as a sport, we’ll have about 130 volunteers at Canada Hockey Place, and about the same number at UBC Thunderbird Arena. To run the venues, when you add it all up, it’ll be close to 1,000 volunteers, including everything from press services to medical services and so on. Have you gotten advice from Jukka-Pekka Vuorinen, your predecessor as director of ice sports duri
