The CAHA had never hosted an Ice Hockey World Championships, and Fleury felt that a bid for the A-division of the 1967 World Championships to coincide with the Canadian Centennial would be approved. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) voted for the Austrian bid which included all divisions. Fleury later revealed that the CAHA had limited its bid to the top five countries of the A-division to exclude the East German national team, to avoid embarrassing the Government of Canada due to travel visa issues for East Germany that had occurred at the 1962 World Championships hosted in the United States. He also explained that the decision not to host the B-division was not made due to its perceived lack of profitability, but rather it was political since the CAHA sought to restrict which countries participated in the A-division.