CEO testified in June that Hockey Canada board chair wasn’t informed of allegation for ‘a week to 10 days,’ but organization since July says it happened within…
In particular, how directors and executives deliberately excluded any mention of a series of crucial, potentially scandalous decisions from official Hockey Canada board minutes, thereby leaving no record, no paper trail.
On May 24, the day the settlement was reached, Hockey Canada for the first time informed external and even internal principals and partners of the alleged 2018 incident, and of the satisfactory settlement freshly reached out of court with the victim. Until then, and from the get-go, Hockey Canada had informed only a crisis-management core that included its executive leadership team, its board of directors, its legal advisers, its insurers and the potential players involved.
Smith, however, at the second public hearing on July 27 testified that it was his recollection the board chair was alerted immediately, on the same day that he and Renney found out from Hockey Canada’s VP of human resources, whom Renney testified had been alerted to a call of complaint received by Hockey Canada that morning from the alleged victim’s step-father.
In other words, the board chair was informed on the same day executives learned of the allegation, as is proper, and as Smith contends. The contradictory testimony might possibly even support a widely held belief that Renney, a former longtime hockey coach in the major-junior and NHL ranks, was more or less a figurehead leader who delegated most nuts-and-bolts business decisions, circa 2014-22, to Smith and his executive leadership team, or at least typically relied on Smith’s recommendations.
In a phone interview for this report, Housefather said that in his three decades of board work, “he’s never seen such a wide-ranging delegation power.”Article content “Anything major, such as , certainly should go to the board immediately,” said Powers, who additionally has decades of personal experience in serving on dozens of boards, including in sports as a past vice-chair of Rugby Canada, and currently as board chair for Commonwealth Sport Canada.Article content
That might seem incongruous, at best. But that’s not how it went down. The victim’s lawyer, Talach, told CBC last month the non-disclosure agreement was mutually sought, by both sides — hers, because she did not want to “add to a public spectacle,” Talach told CBC.
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