An Ontario woman recently launched a human rights complaint against the municipality of Cornwall over its policies preventing her from swimming topless at public pools. This legal challenge comes two decades after courts recognized women’s right to bare their breasts in public in Ontario. In this blog we explore whether a condominium can impose a dress code for the pool.
The media recently reported that an Eastern Ontario women launched a human rights complaint against the municipality of Cornwall, 7 hotels and a waterpark over their policies preventing her from swimming topless at public pools. Apparently, the City of Cornwall still had in its books a policy requiring women and girls over the age of 10 to wear tops while using the municipal aquatic centre, outdoor pools or parks. Cornwall Mayor is quoted to have acknowledged that the policy was outdated, discriminatory and gender-based. For its part, the waterpark is reported to have maintained its ban against female toplessness on the basis that they are a family-oriented amusement park.
