A pair of signs posted in the change rooms at the swimming pool at Jarry Park are raising eyebrows, telling swimmers to be discreet with their changing and not to loiter in the nude.
The signs have spurred a debate about how much nudity is too much for a change room.
"If you go to a change room I feel that you're going with the understanding that you might see somebody nude," says Lesya Nakoneczny, a regular at Jarry pool. "I think it makes people feel shameful, or that maybe your nude body is seen in a sexual way even in a women's change room which is kind of a gross feeling."
The sign features stick figures with cartoon breast outlines hidden modestly behind towels, in the men's change room stick figures have towels wrapped around their waists.
A lifeguard at the pool told CJAD 800 that the signs were posted after a complaint was launched last year about people showering in the nude after a swim, there are no shower stalls at Jarry pool.
Nakoneczny says a change room is designated for changing and bathing and if there's something untoward going on a sign won't fix it
"If there's a sexual predator going to the pool do you think the right course of action is to put a sign up that says 'be discreet in the change room?' No," she says. "You should get the authorities involved."
A city spokesperson said the signs were posted to remind swimmers to be discreet, but wouldn't clarify what amount of nudity is considered discreet.