Let's hear a big welcome for Preston Manning, a fresh new voice in Canadian satirical writing!

"Cancer and lightning go where they want. So does political corruption." -- JAMES LEE BURKE, Wayfaring Stranger, 2014

In all the brouhaha over former Alberta premier Alison Redford's appalling misuse of airplanes and architecture, there haven't been many light-hearted moments.

Thank God, then, for Preston Manning, patriarch of the Canadian right, for finally inserting a little levity into this otherwise sordid and depressing affair.