"Paul Wells" is a Canada/Canadian journalist and pundit, currently working as a columnist for Maclean's Magazine/Maclean's. His column previously appeared in the back page slot famously occupied for many years by Allan Fotheringham, but is now kept at the front of the magazine with other columns.

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I like the competition against some of the best. Dara has been match fishing for 25 years. I've been match fishing for seven years. I am learning a lot.

That's the woulda, coulda, shoulda. We wish we would have, but we didn't.

He just barely begins to make his point before he runs out of time. ... He can tend to have a sanctimonious streak. His response to hard questions is often of the 'how-dare-you' variety.

Thank God I'm still here, ... It was kind of scary. I said, 'God, please let me live.'

[Dryden's long-form style of answering questions means] he's almost never invited on TV, ... He's the despair of every TV producer who's ever had him on. That's a high-class problem, because it also means he faces less scrutiny.

They couldn't irrigate an acre in some parts of the state with only 1 acre-foot of water, especially if it were typical irrigation.