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Isabelle, a helpful, happy-looking Summit worker with bright red lipstick, described it as the “big attraction.” People keep on asking her about it. Everybody wants to see it.

“Our bosses went to go see it,” said an RCMP officer sitting nearby. Said another: “I wonder if they’ll import any mosquitoes?” And a third: “What a waste of money.”

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People are anxious to eyeball the famous fake lake, a $1.9-million tax-payer-funded indoor homage to cottage country that has been erected in the heart of the big city, in the International Media Centre at the Direct Energy Centre in downtown Toronto.

Sadly, the lake is officially off limits to curious journalists until Thursday. Unofficially, three enterprising muckrakers from the National Post decided to investigate on Tuesday morning. The cloak and dagger operation involved walking through an open door, down a hall and through another open door, while bypassing a bevy of security personnel conducting mock bag searches and practicing on one another with security wands.