25-10-2017 17:04 via ottawacitizen.com

OC Transpo won't follow new Quebec veil ban, Mayor Watson says

OC Transpo won’t follow a new Quebec law that forces people receiving a public service to uncover their faces, with Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson dismissing the law as “a thinly-veiled appeal to populist sentiment.”
Transpo’s bus services stretch into Gatineau and buses with the Société de transport de l’Outaouais serve parts of downtown Ottawa.
Watson wrote to Quebec Premier Phillippe Couillard on Wednesday, telling him that the premier shouldn’t
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