{"id":61070,"date":"2021-02-10T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=61070"},"modified":"2021-02-09T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:32:10","slug":"qotd-wellss-rules-of-canadian-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/02\/10\/qotd-wellss-rules-of-canadian-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Wells’s Rules of Canadian Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There have been questions about my Rules of Politics around here in the last few days. Okay, not a lot<\/em> of questions, but still. Here is the full list of rules. About a year after I came up with the original two<\/a>, I added two more, which was probably a mistake. Sometimes I come up with candidates for additions to the list, and here today I will reveal one I considered adding, before deciding against it. But I think it’s time to show a little discipline, so the canonical list will stop at four. Four shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be four. Ready?<\/p>\n

1: For any given situation, Canadian politics will tend toward the least exciting possible outcome.<\/p>\n

2: If everyone in Ottawa knows something, it’s not true.<\/p>\n

3. The candidate in the best mood wins.<\/p>\n

4. The guy who auditions for the role of opposition leader will get the job.<\/p>\n

Paul Wells, “Wells’s Rules, annotated”, Maclean’s<\/em><\/a>, 2009-05-21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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