This misses the point so much. If you care so much about women who wear the niqab/burka being able to freely move/interact/communicate in open society, why don't you acknowledge that the VERY act of covering a woman's face removes them from society.  Facial expression, the moving of the mouth, looking at one's face when speaking to someone is INTEGRAL to basic human communication.  How can women move freely in the world when they are covered? 

YOU ARE LITERALLY ERASING A WOMAN'S ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE. 

This infantile belief of moral and cultural relativism is going to continue to polarize Canada.  If people can't have an honest conversation about conservative Islam then all the problems you just described in this article will only get worse.

ALL conservative religion is oppressive to women, and you're doing no favours to your community by defending this bullshit.