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Zunera Ishaq and Jason Kenney

Jason Kenney: "I believe people taking the public oath of citizenship should do so publicly, w/ their faces uncovered," Kenney, who now employment and social development minister, Tweeted amid an ongoing lawsuit over the ban against the federal government, according to CTV. Zunera Ishaq, a Pakistani woman now living in Mississauga, is suing the Conservatives, arguing the ban violates her Charter rights by failing to accommodate her religious beliefs. Niqabs are worn by some Muslim women in public areas and in front of adult males who are not relatives and - Jason Kenney took to Twitter on Friday to publicly promote his directives while immigration minister to forbid Muslim women from wearing niqabs while taking the oath of citizenship. He asked his 35,700 Twitter followers if they agreed with his stance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.