Supreme Court

Supreme Court: Current regulations ban wearing of face veils at citizenship ceremonies, but Ishaq challenged the rule, won in Federal Court and again this week, when a three-judge appeal panel upheld that decision in a quick ruling from the bench, according to The Chronicle Herald. In response, the federal government said it would seek leave to appeal the case to the Supreme Court of Canada. The government announced Friday it will seek a stay of a Federal Court of Appeal decision this week that would have allowed Zunera Ishaq to wear a niqab while swearing the oath of citizenship. On Friday it said it would ask that the appeal court ruling be put on hold while the issue goes to the Supreme Court. Look, when someone joins the Canadian family, there are times in our open, tolerant, pluralistic society that as part of our interactions with each other we reveal our identity through revealing our face. The reason why now is because we had a court ruling that we’re responding to expeditiously, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday at a campaign event in Calgary. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.