The “hooting” is a revealing curiosity here. Mayor Kelley wasn’t even aware it was in there. He’s a lawyer, and it’s not really a lawyer’s word. It’s ambiguous. You can hoot in exultation, but you can also “give a hoot,” or more commonly not. “Hoot” is a double-meaning, mirrored sort of word, and it helps illuminate this carnival world of quasi-wilderness luxury, Muskoka, where people who give a hoot about hooting have successfully got it banned, at least part of the time.
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