Lawyers for an Ontario man fighting public-nudity charges -including one for allegedly going through a burger joint drive-thru in the buff -are expected to argue today in court that Canada's nudity laws are unconstitutional.
Brian Coldin, the owner of a clothingoptional resort in Bracebridge, Ont., is on trial for incidents that included driving through an A&W and Tim Hortons without any clothes and walking in a park and on a road wearing only sandals.
Nader Hasan, one of Coldin's lawyers, said Monday that existing laws punish people for "innocent" acts of nudity, such as sunbathing in a backyard or changing clothes at a swimming pool.
"These criminal laws are far too broad. They criminalize all kinds of harmless conduct, all kinds of innocent nudity."
There is no evidence that nudity causes any enduring, psychiatric harm, Hasan said...
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SOURCE: http://www.theprovince.com/accused+making+nude+trips+challenges+nudity+laws/5050286/story.html
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