Citizenship Immigration and Citizenship Ceremonies

following rules: They don't want their co-citizens to be terrorists," he told the website. "They don't want people to become citizens who haven't respected the rules." It triggered the following debate, which later spilled out on to social media: Hon, according to Huffington Post Canada. John McCallum : "Mr. In the interview, Alexander talked about the government controversial ban on face-coverings during citizenship ceremonies, often referred to as the "niqab ban." He defended the policy, saying it about following the rules around the oath of citizenship. "People take pride in that. Speaker, it is the most predictable thing in Canadian politics. We also saw yesterday that the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration assumes all Muslim women who wear the veil are terrorists, unless proven otherwise. Someone says 'Muslim' and a Conservative minister says 'terrorist.' Yesterday, when asked about rising hate crimes against Muslims, the Minister of Public Safety felt obliged to talk about terrorists. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.