I think the Canadian Fed. is encouraging Vaughn Chipeur to be macho, to become another Elvis S. I like Vaughn very much and think he will become a better skater, but he should focus on his skating and forget about promoting "Manliness".
I agree that Vaughn is exactly the kind of "macho" skater that SC wants to promote to "masculinize" the sport. If you gave him a hard hat and steel-toe boots along with his LP costume, he would blend right in at a construction site.