{"id":4286,"date":"2010-06-26T11:17:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T15:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4286"},"modified":"2016-12-18T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T16:04:47","slug":"was-the-fake-lake-outrage-itself-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/26\/was-the-fake-lake-outrage-itself-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the \u201cfake lake\u201d outrage itself fake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2010\/06\/25\/fake-lake-wake\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Coyne<\/a> says we&#8217;ve all been faked out of our boots over the &#8220;fake lake&#8221; issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s not an \u201cindoor lake,\u201d as the first story I read suggested. It is a reflector pool, about the size of a backyard swimming pool, only no more than two inches deep. There can\u2019t be more than 10 gallons of water in it, tops. It is bordered by a small wooden platform simulating a dock, with Muskoka chairs casually strewn about. There\u2019s a bank of canoes on either side, and a large screen showing some quite breathtaking high-def footage of Canadian lakeland scenes. And that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not extravagant in the slightest. Modest would be closer to the mark. The government puts the cost at about $57,000, which sounds about right: about what it would cost to finish your basement. Or to be precise, it represents just over two 100,000ths of one per cent of federal spending. All in all it\u2019s rather a pleasant spot, a small oasis of calm and comfort away from the conference churn, and shows every sign of being a hit with the foreign press. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So either we all got hoodwinked over the vast cost and outright fakery, <em>or they&#8217;ve brainwashed Andew Coyne<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Coyne says we&#8217;ve all been faked out of our boots over the &#8220;fake lake&#8221; issue: It\u2019s not an \u201cindoor lake,\u201d as the first story I read suggested. It is a reflector pool, about the size of a backyard swimming pool, only no more than two inches deep. There can\u2019t be more than 10 gallons [&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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[86,432,1085,578,213],"class_list":["post-4286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","tag-criticism","tag-diplomacy","tag-fakenews","tag-g20","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-178","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286","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=4286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36708,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4286\/revisions\/36708"}],"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=4286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}