Again.... ask some women wearing niqabs. We're in Canada and they should have freedom of choice. You can presume what you like about those choices, but they are theirs.
I don't often fully agree with Rex Murphy, but I do on this, mostly. His evaluation of the whole thing the other day was pretty on point. Surely some kind of compromise should prevail here - either we could be okay with the occasional woman wearing a niqab taking the oath, or the woman could offer to remove it just for the ceremony, or the oath for her could be accommodated in another room with a female witness with the veil removed. It's Canada. We can do compromise.
And you know - there are more important things for us to be dealing with besides "othering" an entire group of new Canadians.
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