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Citizenship Ceremony

: McCallum was referring to comments Alexander made in an interview with Vice published Wednesday, according to CTV. In that interview, Alexander was responding to questions about a court case with a woman who wants to wear a niqab during her citizenship ceremony. It started when McCallum asked Alexander whether he would apologize to Muslim Canadians, claiming Alexander implied that all Muslim women who wear the veil are terrorists unless proven otherwise. Until this court decision last year -- which we think was very mistaken and that why we're appealing it -- there was no controversy about this, and the overwhelming majority of people were happy to be seen and heard taking the oath, Alexander told Vice Justin Ling. We've done a lot in the past year to strengthen the value of Canadian citizenship. The overwhelming majority of Canadians want that rule to continue to apply. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.