National Assembly Dept: The four were coming to present their views on Bill 94, known as the niqab bill, which would require anyone dispensing or receiving government-paid services, including health and education, to show their faces, according to Montreal Gazette. ceremonial kirpans, secured and under their clothing and the debate on reasonable accommodation of religion differences in Quebec came into sharp focus yesterday when four Sikhs were barred from entering the National Assembly for refusing to remove their ceremonial daggers. "It is ironic that we were not accommodated at a hearing on accommodation," noted Balpreet Singh, one of the four Sikhs who showed up at the assembly wearing their As
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