Nakedness. Nudity, Yech! Not here you don't, you perv

Nudity seems to be an important issue for British Columbians.

The Sun reports that the altogether ("in their altogethers") calm and harmless book, "Wreck Beach," is just too much for the crude, rude travellers on BC Ferries, so it's been ditched.

But yesterday, my friend Jonathan Baker tells me that his junior law partner just triumphed over the burghers of Surrey, who couldn't stand the idea of nude swimming in one of their local pools. Late at night with closed windows for a nudist group. Shocking.

Read the whole SkinnyDipper decision here.

Funny, I seem to remember swimming nude at the YMHA in Winnipeg regularly when I was a boy...but that was the enlightened '50s in Winnipeg.

And while we're on the subject of "swimming pools in Surrey," how about the City of Surrey changing its policy such that an 80-year old man who has been swimming and using the gym for free, now has to pay?

How stupid, how petty, how without vision are these people?

If an 80-year old man uses the gym and pool every day, he is staying healthy and thus saving the community thousands of dollars in health care costs.

But some mandarin, mad with power, decides we should charge this veteran.

They should pay him!