A reasonable decision - the question now that will beg: how will restitution (read: how much money) will this involve?

It's with some perhaps puerile and petty delight that I take pleasure in the looming restitution of Jean Pelletier to the head of Via Rail Canada, if only because the conditions surrounding his firing were shaky at best and partisan at worst.

While comments regarding Myriam Bédard may have crossed the line of proper conduct regarding the character of another person, they very difficulty constitute sufficient motive to justify the firing of a federal executive who, for lack of any proof provided yet to the eyes of the casual citizen (the ultimate arbiter, it would seem), did not merit the fate reserved him by the vindictive and often vexatious Paul Martin government, more concerned in suppressing Chrétienites than preparing an effective campaign against a strengthening and united opposition.