This veil is about increasing demands of accommodating assertive political Islam (or Islamism) - political Islam or societies "governed" by Islamic law are highlighted by social regression, authoritarianism, and the subjugation of women - without exception. Just look at every country that still has the death penalty for homosexuality - it's not a coincidence. The veil is a symbol of oppression that should be opposed the same way society would be opposed to a KKK member on a bus in full white cloak. Just imagine the civil liberties association taking the same case: "this person's white cloak is a symbol of modesty and piety, it has nothing to do with racism and bigotry" (apparently, the fact that it does represent racism and bigotry everywhere else around the world is irrelevant - or is it?). Look at the state of individual freedoms in every single country where the niqab is common, is that the type of society Canada should "accommodate", because it's 2017?