Re Lamaze ruling wrong message, Sept. 19. As a Canadian, I am happy
that Eric Lamaze has been given a fair shake. Clearly any person who
has had addiction trouble in the past is always in danger of a relapse.

If the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CES) had done its job
properly in the first place, none of this would have happened. How
would your average person deal with being banned from their career
because they had (to draw a parallel example) parked illegally? Lamaze
has worked hard to overcome his addiction and I was proud to have a
person who had overcome their own failings to achieve such heights
represent Canada. I'll still be proud that we gave him a fair hearing.

David J. House,
Mississauga