Just when we'd despaired of ever hearing again from Rob Anders, the man who will be Canada's worst Member of Parliament only a little longer, he announced "a sense of mission and duty" has made him contemplate a run at the leadership of Alberta's foundering Wildrose Party.

Thank God for small favours!

Even word that Tom Flanagan, the Icarus of Canada's neoconservative movement, had flown too close to the sun and was coming down to earth in flames was not enough to save Alberta's crisis-prone Progressive Conservative government from more pain!

One would have thought Premier Alison Redford would have been cheered when the principal architect of the Opposition Wildrose Party's brush with victory last April appeared at a seminar to defend users of child pornography and thereby assured his own political and professional demise.

After all, he was very nearly the cause of her party's destruction.