Zunera Ishaq and Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: A federal judge ruled in Ottawa last week that a portion of the law requiring citizenship candidates to remove their face coverings while taking the oath was unlawful. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Ishaq, a Sunni Muslim from the Toronto-area who wears a niqab when in public, wants to be allowed to take the oath of citizenship while veiled. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the government will appeal a Federal Court ruling that would allow someone to take the oath of citizenship with their faces covered. The case had been brought on by Zunera Ishaq, a Pakistani national who had sued the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration claiming the government policy on veils violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.