Quebec Society: Immigration Minister

Stiff Opposition Dept: The proposed legislation would bring in stiff rules for wearing religious headdress such as the niqab in front-line public service jobs. Only about a dozen women in Quebec are believed to wear the full Islamic veil. The proposed law, known as Bill 94, would prohibit women who work at front-line government agency jobs from wearing religious face coverings such as niqabs the full Islamic veil that only reveals the eyes, according to CBC. It also mandates the integration of immigrants in Quebec society, she said this week, as a provincial committee studied the bill and quebec's immigration minister is facing some stiff opposition to her so-called 'niqab bill', that outlines new reasonable accommodation rules for public services. Quebec immigration minister Katherine Weil said a reasonable accommodation law is needed to legislate the open and secular delivery of public services. As reported in the news.
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