The burqa and niqab are a Trojan horse for hardline Islamists.  Many Muslim countries have in the past banned its use, and several continue to ban it in public places.

There is some irony (not to say hypocrisy) in the bashing that the Québec government has received after the National Assembly voted Bill 62.  The well-intentioned feminists who claim that wearing the burqa is an entrenched religious right fail to see the societal pressures from the largely mysogysist religious leaders on their co-religionists. 

Bill 62 is likely to be found inconstitutional by the courts, and will prove to be very difficult, indeed impossible to apply.  Despite the outcry in the rest of Canada, Quebecers are not hostile to individual newcomers, and you will continue to see a few burqa-clad women in buses, hospitals and other public places.