Not buying what you are selling, sorry. If you look at the Ontario team that won silver at the Canada Winter Games last year, sure Holmes was on there, but so were Enright, Del Mastro, Punnett, and Schmidt. Holmes deserves recognition for his accomplishment, and why you believe otherwise is beyond me. Covid or not, these are the players that would have been in the running for the Hlinka roster.
Of course, only half those players invited to selection camp actually make the tournament roster. Whether or not Homer would have made the roster would depend more on the selection camp than anything else. Since that camp is canceled we will never know if he would have made that team. Nobody is saying he would be a lock for the Hlinka roster.