Skate Canada bidding to bring 2024 world figure skating championships to Montreal Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier perform their routine during a practice in Montreal, on Monday, February 24, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson April 06, 2021 - 7:49 AM OTTAWA - Skate Canada hopes to bring the world figure skating championships to Montreal, four years after they were cancelled due to COVID-19. Figure skating's national governing body announced Tuesday it will submit a formal bid this month to host the 2024 world figure skating championships in Montreal. Canada has hosted the event 10 times. Canada last hosted the world championships in 2013 in London, Ont. The Montreal world championships were cancelled on March 11, 2020, less than a week before the event was scheduled to start and the same day the NBA shut down due to COVID-19. It was one of the first global events that was erased by the global pandemic.