Wow.  Like, holy crap.  When Lisa MacLeod speaks more directly on individual rights than Justin Trudeau, put a mark on the calendar.

More to the point, when the inevitable court challenge comes, will the federal Department of Justice be an intervenor? If so, on which side -- from those statements, it's kind of hard to tell.

This law is a good argument for pulling out and dusting off the disallowance power of the federal government, rather than forcing people to have to raise a court challenge against it...since it will inevitably lose.

Because, as I have said elsewhere, if the goal is to get people to integrate, using force like this just makes them double down and dig in on their threatened identity. Far better to ignore them, let them see how much equality we have in Canada, and then over time they (or their daughters) will have the positive examples they need. Ban these things, and the women will just stay shut up at home, away from those examples.