Well... it will be interesting... I have, of course, some ideas.... but there are a few teams that (don't hate me or do if you wish) I hope wouldn't get released.... Canada has left quite a lot of young/junior promising talent move away recently. We have dancers skating for New Zealand, Australia and Korea for instance, all of them are young and good teams. One of these teams beat our National Junior Champs at JWC. Canada has tons of "natural resources" in ice dance... but letting go too many teams at the same time could backfire, especially as some of our great teams are getting closer and closer to retirement. Skate Canada should make sure that they keep competitive teams in all "generations". Skate Canada, is investing on this young talent with the next gen... they also supported 9 senior ice dance teams last year on the National team. Not too long ago, Canada barely had more than one competitive team on the circuit every year. The popularity and success of ice dance in Canada, probably comes from the great career of Virtue and Moir as well as great training centers. Skate Canada is smart to keep a hold on some of its best talents, and as I said, have let many skaters switch countries even recently.
I won't go into speculation about the "wait next year" but I can see a few reasons about this, if it is true. (sorry, I get you are an insider and that you are not inventing this, but i am always careful about "rumours" until things are revealed by the skaters themselves), Ultimately, as a fan, I do not expect to ever find the many versions of a complicated story... but all I can say is that if Skate Canada was willing to let Lim and Quan, Charlotte and Jason skate for other countries as they are very talented young dancers, they cannot be all evil.