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Canada court lets women wear veil for citizenship oath

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New Canadian citizens can wear face veils at their citizenship ceremonies, a Canadian court ruled Tuesday,
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New Canadian citizens can wear face veils at their citizenship ceremonies, a Canadian court ruled Tuesday, overturning a ban the ruling party had trumpeted as a policy accomplishment on the eve of elections.

The Federal Court of Appeals also threw out a policy that had required new citizens to have their faces uncovered as they recite the citizenship oath.

It upheld a lower court’s ruling that the niqab, which covers all of the wearer’s face except the eyes, can be worn at the ceremony.

Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper had called that earlier decision, issued in February in the case of Toronto-area resident Zunera Ishaq, “unacceptable” and had appealed to defend his law.

The lower court had held that the ban violated Ishaq’s religious freedoms under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a position the appeals court upheld.
“The appeal was dismissed with compensation,” a court spokesman told AFP, noting the three judges had cited the urgency of deciding the case quickly so Ishaq can take the citizenship oath in time to vote in the Oct. 19 parliamentary elections.

Originally from Pakistan, Ishaq arrived in Canada in 2008 and passed her citizenship test in 2013.

But Ishaq refused to participate in the oath-reciting ceremony because she did not want to do it with her face uncovered, as required under a 2011 law.

The Conservative government had not yet responded to the ruling Tuesday, but the decision can still be appealed to the Supreme Court

Source: KUNA

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