Certainly it would be interesting to have the exact number of women who believe that 'covering their face' is a 'religious tenet' & not the obvious self-induced 'erogenous act' & 'attention getter' it seems to be.

As well, it would be interesting to have an exact number of Cdn women who believe 'covering the female face' showing only the eyes through a slit in cloth is nothing but a subjugating imagined naiveté pandering to the anachronistic paternalistic myth of primitive misogyny.

Certainly, all Cdn Women have the right to Reality. Canadian Women should not have foisted upon them the oppressive, imaginary status of the pretending special  'Unknown Women'.. visually imposing a grotesque expectation of subjugation onto the existential psyche of 'every other Cdn Female Citizen' they encounter; who silently absorbs this visual imperative to buckle-under to a visual misogyny.

The niqab & burqa illustrate the end of the road for Women who consider a public smile - sexual-appropriation.