A good week for naked Canadian officials

[matt_mcl]

You wouldn’t think, would you, that a week in late October that brought many parts of the country their first snowfall would be so heavy on the suits in their birthday suits, would you? And yet here we are:

Prominent Nova Scotia MP and Liberal leadership contender poses nude for a charity calendar

[Kings–Hants MP Scott] Brison recently posed for “What Men Are Made Of,” a calendar produced by the Women of Wolfville, a Nova Scotia theatre group.

But people who buy the calendar won’t get to see too much of Brison. In the photo, he’s standing behind a fridge door.

“You can see his right flank,” said Wendy Elliot, who took the picture.

Elliot said Brison, who spends an hour in the gym every day, looks pretty buff in the picture, but she wouldn’t say whether she saw him naked. …

Brison said he decided to expose himself for the calendar because of the cause.

“My father’s had prostate cancer,” he said. “I mean, every family’s touched by it. I will do whatever I can to support efforts to fight cancer.”

And in further déshabille developments:
Did Supreme Court judge throw away briefs?

Some Supreme Court judges seek relief from work stress in the comfort of their families. Others love nothing more than to curl up with a good book. And could it be, for at least one of them, a nude romp on the high seas was just the ticket?

The anonymous judge’s alleged unconventional vacation choice – a nude cruise – came to light in a San Francisco Chronicle travel article in the spring. It quoted a co-owner of the Bare Necessities cruise line, Nancy Tiemann, as saying that its clientele include: “actors, bus drivers, Fortune 500 CEOs, soccer moms, doctors, teachers, priests and at least one Canadian Supreme Court justice.”

The story came to the attention of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, who swiftly launched an investigation into which, if any, of her eight colleagues was the alleged unrobed sailor.

In an e-mail to the author of the article, Chronicle deputy travel editor Spud Hilton, an assistant to Chief Justice McLachlin said: "Dear Spud. We here at the Supreme Court of Canada read with great interest your article on nude cruising. You mentioned ‘at least one Canadian Supreme Court judge’ has taken part, based on your conversation with Nancy Tiemann.

“We were curious, to say the least, and are wondering if you can say who those justices were,” said the e-mail, a copy of which was supplied by Mr. Hilton. “Or, perhaps the co-ordinates for Ms. Tiemann, if she is the source of the info.”

According to Supreme Court Justice Marshall Rothstein, the investigation ran aground at this point. Speaking to an audience at the University of Toronto law school last week, Judge Rothstein read a tongue-in-cheek memo which Chief Justice McLachlin circulated to her Supreme Court colleagues on May 12.

Entitled “Re. Nude Cruising,” the memo said: “I made inquiries into the identity of the judge, but was rebuffed on a claim of journalistic privilege. . . . All this is to say, that our secret is safe.”

The Nude Democratic Party had no comment.

[Polycarp]

Good golly, Matt, if you NDPers play this right, it’s your chance to make inroads into the Prairie Provinces! (How many Doukhobors are there left up there now, anyway?)

[Mindfield]

Egad. Talk about your stiff opposition. Those are poles I’m definitely not going to. Next thing you know they’ll be revealing caucus meetings on camera. shudder

[matt_mcl]

@Polycarp

Good golly, Matt, if you NDPers play this right, it’s your chance to make inroads into the Prairie Provinces! (How many Doukhobors are there left up there now, anyway?)

In the prairies in November? None, that’s for damned sure. brrr

[The_Weird_One]

What, no pics? :mad:

[matt_mcl]

[url=“http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061101.wdip1102/PhotoGallery01?slot=1”]Because you were desperate to see Scott Brison’s calendar appearance[/a]

He looks creepily like this guy I dated.

[matt_mcl]

Let’s try that again

[Daffyd]

I have to admit that he’s sorta cute… but what exactly is he doing in that picture? Nude housework?

That’s just ridicu… how stupi… why would he want to do tha…

I have to admit he’s REALLY cute… is he available on a weekly basis? Does he vacuum, or just clean fridges with sponges?

[Mighty_Girl]

Apparently “discussing the constitution is a Danish euphemism for having sex”. I can see how a supreme court justice would be so interested in the constitution.

[Nava]

I have a fridge that needs cleaning… does he clean the inside too? And there is a space heater right there, wouldn’t want him to catch his death, dressed like that, you know.

[matt_mcl]

@Mighty_Girl

Apparently “discussing the constitution is a Danish euphemism for having sex”.

Hm, I can’t quite see that in Canada.

Messy, unpleasant, everyone is reluctant to do it because it could lead to unexpected breakups?

Hmmm… Maybe “discussing the constitution” should be slang for cleaning the house.

[myskepticsight]

@matt_mcl

Let’s try that again

That guy is not cute, IMO, but that fridge is badass!

[Barbarian]

Don’t forget Bob Rae skinny-dipping on the Mercer Report. But what I want to know is, why on earth are the Supremes conducting an investigation into nude cruising? It’s not like it’s a crime or anything…

[Kythereia]

clicks on link

Thank you, Matt, my nightmares have just been so boring and stale recently…

:eek:

[matt_mcl]

@Barbarian

Don’t forget Bob Rae skinny-dipping on the Mercer Report. But what I want to know is, why on earth are the Supremes conducting an investigation into nude cruising? It’s not like it’s a crime or anything…

The article is pretty tongue-in-cheek. It seems that the investigation was more in the nature of a jokey e-mail saying “'fess up.”