{"id":3235,"date":"2010-03-24T13:39:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T17:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:47:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:47:51","slug":"qotd-the-rules-of-canadian-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/qotd-the-rules-of-canadian-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The rules of Canadian politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We now introduce <em>Wells&#8217;s Rules of Politics<\/em>. I have been working on them for years. So far I have only come up with two. If your goal is to understand Canadian politics, there is no obvious need for more than two rules. Here they are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 1:<\/strong> For any given situation, Canadian politics will tend toward the least exciting possible outcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 2:<\/strong> If everyone in Ottawa knows something, it&#8217;s not true.<\/p>\n<p>The rules are closely related. Usually when Everyone Knows what&#8217;s about to happen, they&#8217;re really only hoping it will happen so their boring lives (see Rule 1) will become more interesting. <\/p>\n<p>Paul Wells, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/columnists\/article.jsp?content=20030728_62786_62786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;My Rules of Politics&#8221;, <em>Macleans<\/em><\/a>, 2003-07-28<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now introduce Wells&#8217;s Rules of Politics. I have been working on them for years. So far I have only come up with two. If your goal is to understand Canadian politics, there is no obvious need for more than two rules. Here they are: Rule 1: For any given situation, Canadian politics will tend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57,28,53,41],"tags":[522,458],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-ottawa","tag-parliament"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Qb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65591,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/65591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}