There is no way to know (at least not at the moment) but suspicion runs high among reporters that someone at the CBC told Kevin Donovan about the arrangement that Evan Solomon had to sell art to wealthy acquaintances he made through his job at the corporation. If Solomon may be believed, the number of “customers” in the matter is exactly two. They have been identified as former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and Jim Ballsillie, former head of Blackberry. Maybe they blabbed it all around but it doesn’t seem likely because as the story goes the customers didn’t even know about the rich commissions paid to Solomon So how? Solomon has explained that he went to his employer earlier this year and confessed his secret business.
CBC A NEST OF WHISPERERS
Oh oh. This is the CBC were talking about and such an admission in that nest of whisperers is probably a lot like going to the hospital and getting sick. Today (Wednesday, June 10, 2015) Donovan told Stephen LeDrew on CP24 that Solomon dissembled a bit when the Star’s scandal man put it to him. Then he came clean. LeDrew did not ask nor would Donovan have told him how he learned of the story. There would have been nothing wrong with asking. It is what people want to know. Maybe Donovan will say that it didn’t come from the CBC. LeDrew however probed the conscience of his sombre guest. Donovan said (in a kind way) that he did not feel badly for those he exposed. It was they who were doing wrong, he said. He said he found it unfortunate (our word) that the CBC did not ask Solomon “the hard questions.”
EVAN SOLOMON THE SOLE VICTIM
That may have been a cheap one. Evan Solomon is not Jian Gomeshi The fearsome fire of the Toronto Star no doubt spooked Solomon’s bosses. They had already bungled the Gomeshi affair so badly that a reprimand and warning, even to the immensely talented Evan Solomon, could not be contemplated. Make no mistake. Solomon’s judgement failed him badly. One supposes that $300,000 can fog the mind. Nonetheless, this is a transgression with no victim but Solomon.
