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So happy that the rumour turned out to be true. After the unfortunate loss of two favourite teams – LaLa and Kaitlin/Jean-Luc – this is the best possible outcome!
Exactly! He deserves a chance to shine as an ice dance champion, with Marjorie, who is so lovely. I gained new appreciation for Marjorie's talent after hearing Tanith Belbin's commentary at 2026 Worlds.
Hannah Lim
I will probably need one soon too.
LOL! Create a 3-way. Kaitlin & Jean-Luc were divine.
From juniors right up through their final, gorgeous, heartbreaking finale. 
They just had the misfortune of competing in a stacked and stoked U.S. ice dance field!
While we're at it, let's give praise and thanks to Great Britain 
, Jean-Luc's parents, Kaitlin Hawayek, Seattle, Washington, and to Ice Academy of Montreal! 
Yes - they were divine and criminally underscored on the regular. Their free in Beijing 2022 was, perhaps, my all time favorite ice dance program ever. Magical.LOL! Create a 3-way. Kaitlin & Jean-Luc were divine.
I'm just thrilled to see Baker back out there!!! 
If P/P retire, I see them easily cruising to Canada #1, especially if the Hannah/Zack rumours are true since they will have to sit out a season.I love both these ice dancers and wish them much success.
Marjorie Lajoie and Jean-Luc Baker join forces for Canada
Marjorie Lajoie and Jean-Luc Baker Announce New Canadian Ice Dance Partnership The post-Olympic shakeup in ice dance has produced one of its mostwww.goldenskate.com
How do you think they fit into Canada’s current ice dance hierarchy? What style of programs would you like to see them skate in their debut season?
I know you meant Jean-Luc but Baker, though it's not a common name in Québec, as it is pretty wide-spread in the Anglo-Saxon world, is also part of our surname landscape. I knew a Baker (French speaking only) family in my college years. They came from the Eastern Townships which is perhaps (outside of Montreal) the most English settled area in Quebec. So, my bet is that people from Québec/Canada who do not follow figure skating closely may even think that Jean-Luc is a dude from Montreal, whose mother tongue is French. They may never know he is American/ British... and may find out only in a couple years, if there are talks about citizenship...Wowza. I assume JLB has some sort of working papers after living in Canada for so long, but I wonder if he will try for citizenship? (Not that I am getting ahead of myself
He has a name made for Patinage Québec in any event.
Cue in Alicia Fabbri and her former partner Claudio Pietrantonio both born in the greater Montreal region.
Wish JLB was able to come back for the US, but I understand why this makes much more sense for him and wish them the best. If P/P truly do retire, this could be Canada's new #1!
