Double Juno nominee Dallas Green says he's confused about the awards, which honour the Canadian music industry, and would like to see more categories added so more bands could be nominated.

Green, who has a solo act and is also the frontman for Alexisonfire, says the awards should be about celebrating "the entire Canadian music industry as opposed to those bands that just sell records."

'There's a lot of really, really great Canadian bands that don't get nominated because they didn't sell enough records.'—Dallas Green

Seven of the 39 Juno categories are based partially on sales and those categories tend to be the major ones — including album of the year, group of the year and single of the year.

"There's a lot of really, really great Canadian bands that don't get nominated because they didn't sell enough records," notes Green, who is in competition for artist of the year and songwriter of the year.

Green's comments come on the heels of those by several other musicians who have criticized the commercial nature of the Junos.

Earlier in the week, musician Matthew Good said he had "no desire" to join the Juno party.

A Juno winner himself, Good called the awards "pointless" saying, "I've never gone, so I've never gone up and received any of [my awards]."

His sentiments were echoed by Toronto singer/songwriter Howie Beck, who called the major categories irrelevant.Russell Peters won a Gemini Award for hosting the Juno Awards in Calgary last April. He will take on the role again for this year's awards in Vancouver. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)

Green says he doesn't want to cut any of the Juno awards. Instead, he says more categories could be added and suggests that the alternative album of the year — which he won as part of Alexisonfire — is too broad.

"[They should] keep striving to add more categories because the more the years go by, the more great Canadian bands there are," said Green, who will be performing solo as City and Colour.

Host Peters promises unique opening on Sunday

The first part of the Juno Awards, being held in Vancouver this year, will take place Saturday night while the televised show, with marquee prizes, will happen on Sunday night.

Hanna, Alberta's Nickelback leads with five nominations going into the show, followed by Sam Roberts with four nods and Céline Dion and Hedley with three apiece.

Sunday's gala is hosted by comedian Russell Peters for a second year in a row.

Peters, who has admitted his ignorance of the Canadian music scene, says he plans to skewer Alberta band Nickelback like he did last year. He asked the band to appear in a skit with him this time around, but they declined.

"Ego, I guess," said Peters in describing what might have been the band's motivation to reject his offer.

Peters, who was unpredictable at last year's Calgary event, says he will proceed as last year, with a devil-may-care attitude.

"I go for it, I don't really care," says Peters about the kind of jokes that may come out.

"Musicians are weird, dude," notes Peters. "It'll be worth watching, if not for anything else, just to see what I'm going to say."

The Brampton, Ont., native also promises a unique opening to the show.

"It's starting completely different than you've ever seen a Canadian award show start before."

With files from the Canadian Press