No one disputes the need for full, unambiguous identification when required, areukiddingme. Examples must include physical access to high-risk, high-security areas and application for photo ID, including passports. It's now required in Alberta for voting.

But in almost every other way, certainly including taxpayer funded ones, you can prove who you are with a user ID and a PIN. That is why I can do my banking, calculate and submit my income tax, receive a refund, and apply for Canada Pension Plan benefits from my kitchen table. I can go to a banking machine and withdraw somewhere between $600 & $1,000 a day without anyone seeing my face. If I go into a bank to do banking at the teller's wicket, I am asked to identify myself using my debit card and PIN. It would be the same were my face covered.

It's that simple.

As the writer of another piece says, Muslim women are easy targets.