On October 31, 2022, Hockey Canada released a Hockey Canada Governance Review Final Report. Fitting that it would be released on Halloween. Governance at Hockey Canada was far scarier than anything I saw coming to our door. Maybe one day I will have time to review the 221-page report – perhaps not. It would have been more useful to have Stephen King write a five-page report – I am sure it would have been more riveting.
It was pretty obvious that governance at Hockey Canada was awful – as we have discussed before Hockey Canada was not interested in transparency, and they got away with really questionable behaviour for a very long time.
Unfortunately, Hockey Canada is not the only non-profit that is misbehaving, and we are allowing other non-profits and charities to do the same.
I recently tweeted: I think I am going to one day develop a governance course called “How to run a Canadian non-profit or charity so that you don’t have a 221-page report on your organization and how inadequate its governance is, written by a former Supreme Court justice”.
Hopefully, there will be fewer long reports, press releases and pronouncements from Hockey Canada – and more action and changes at Hockey Canada.