These young women say they choose to wear the niqab just as other women choose to wear a bikini. I don't think anyone is forced to wear a bikini (maybe the women on the show Survivor). They choose to wear the niqab, but for every woman who "chooses" to wear the niqab there are thousands who do not have the choice, who are forced into marriages even in Canada, who can't drive or go out alone, who are lapidated for something a brother did,  or are burned by acid , or killed and dumped in the Rideau Canal, or assaulted for a YEAR as the girl in the story on page 16 of this same edition. I am sorry but this archaic way of doing things existed to make sure men controlled women in order they had more warriors and workers.  It is totally outdated to say the least; not that it was ever right this power of the patriarchs. The niqab is a SYMBOL of oppression. So people who say that forbidding these women to wear the niqab is hindering their human rights what does the niqab do?