I stand up and furiously applaud banishing a garb which has been used to ensure women are viewed as non entities on the street.  This is nothing but cultural misogyny  oppressing a woman's human rights  under the guise of  theocratic approval.  

I stand up and applaud the common sense in Quebec:
Some countries so far have banned: Belgium, Bulagria, Italy, Cameroon, Niger
and many more to follow suit!

Their holy book offers no specific guidance on female clothing. Its pages contain no mention of the burka or, for that matter, of the other varieties of dress that are now associated with Islam, including the hijab, or veil.

When the Taliban captured Kabul and seized power over most of Afghanistan in 1996, they made it compulsory for all women to wear the burka.It was the rise of the Wahhabi and Deobandi traditions which spread the burka to areas where it was previously invisible, including West Africa.  Nothing to do with religion but cultural misogyny!