A Canadian radio host and newspaper columnist took off her
top during an interview with her local mayor this week and continued asking him
questions bare-chested. Lori Welbourne, who hosts the radio show On The Rocks
and writes a column for the Province newspaper, was talking to Walter Gray,
mayor of Kelowna in British Columbia, about whether it was legal in the town
for women to bare their breasts in public.
But before Gray could answer her question, Welbourne handed
him her microphone and undid the strap on her dress, exposing her breasts.
'What are you doing,' he asked, to which she replied, 'it's
really hot in here.'
After regaining his composure, Gray explained that while
someone may be tempted to call the police, there is little authorities could do
because it is in fact entirely legal for a woman to be topless anywhere a man
can be.
Welbourne's stunt was in anticipation of Sunday's Go Topless
Day.
Public toplessness is not illegal anywhere in Canada unless
it's deemed to be indecent. It is also legal for women in a range of American
states though plenty still outlaw.
'So I can go topless here in Kelowna?' Welbourne went on.
'Well, evidently,' Gray said. 'I'm not suggesting you should
do that but I don't think you’d be committing any crime or breaking any bylaw.'
Groups of women turned out shirtless in cities including New
York on August 25 to celebrate a women's right to bare her breasts in public.
The annual event was started in 2007.
Welbourne went on to ask the mayor whether he was aware we
are all naked under our clothes and whether he had any piercing and he replied
in good humor.
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