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Well done, Calgary.

Time to change those welcome signs to ‘Canada’s Backwater’.

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And say so long to the much ballyhooed “world class” label that’s seen as so, so important to some people in this city.

Listen carefully and you can hear the snickering in Paris, London, Athens and Rome — even Toronto.

We’re now the city known across Canada, and, given how fast news travels on the Internet, around the world, as uptight and puritanical.

All because a bunch of people wanted to have fun in the buff at one of the city’s leisure centres.

A private function with eager participants, mind you, and the type of event that has been held at city pools previously, apparently without incident.

Yes, children were also expected among the buck naked naturalists frolicking in the wave pool or zooming au naturel down the waterslides — behind blacked out windows.

Most likely the same children of nudists already enjoying Mother Nature sans pants at numerous other events around town.