The dominant nudity taboos in Canadian society as reflected in, for instance, public swimming pools and their changing rooms, allow adults to be nude or "immodestly dressed" in the presence of small children and other adults of the same sex. For niqab wearers, approximately the same rules apply; the only difference is in the list of body parts that it is immodest to expose to public view.

Since that list is arbitrary in any case, the inclusion of women's faces on the list of taboo body parts is not a difference in principle, just in detail.