I don't think there is any issue of Canadian Muslims to want "shariah" (whatever that is) or wanting gender segregation. They are a very small minority in the country and they know it and I don't think they are causing any issues or concern in that regards. However, some of them , might be considered socially and culturally more "conservative" or different from North Americans specially with regards to women and that's where I think they can work on internally to resolve the uneasiness and suspicions from other fellow citizens. I think this whole issue of Hijab or such is non-nonsensical and all sides have room to improve, specially the Muslims.

Our political leaders are probably just being sentimental and coming up with political rhetoric to be politically and morally correct to keep their political wherewithal' . They can probably try to engage people at social and cultural level to mitigate the problem from the root level and create more understanding and trusting social cohesion.