Peter Mansbridge: 'It feels awfully different now'

His tone on the phone is cordial yet business-like: “Hello Bill, it’s Peter Mansbridge.”
And for a moment, I feel like I’m on air with him on The National and that he is set to pump me for info about some arcane happening in this province — be it the busted pet-store parrot who couldn’t speak French or the surreal, ludicrous and seemingly unending saga of the Mordecai Richler gazebo.
On camera, Mansbridge has always had that tone of authority and reason: