Don Macpherson: The Couillard government's anti-niqab bill gets worse
Batman will not sit in the Quebec National Assembly.
This would be the effect of one of the amendments to the Couillard government’s proposed anti-niqab legislation announced this week. Bill 62, targeting Muslim women who wear facial veils, would ban giving or receiving public services with the face concealed. The amendment would extend the ban to MNAs, municipal councillors and school commissioners.
That Quebecers would choose a masked candidate to represent them is almost as hypothetical
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