Middle East Focus: French Anti-Niqab Push Reaches Québec Libre……………
French Anti-Niqab Push Reaches Québec Libre……………
“Veiled women would not receive government services. Consensus growing on anti-Niqab law in Quebec.Canada's federal government is defending a controversial Quebec bill that seeks to ban Muslim women from wearing face-covering burka and niqab veils in public institutions. "The law proposed by the Quebec government makes sense," Prime Minister Stephen Harper's spokesman Dimitri Soudas told The Globe and Mail. But he noted that federal politicians "don't get a vote in provincial assemblies." The draft bill, presented on Wednesday before the National Assembly of Quebec by Liberal lawmaker Kathleen Weil, the province's justice minister, seeks to ban provincial government employees from wearing the full-face veil at work………” Cheers
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