Alberta NDP demands Jason Kenney apologize for federal niqab policy as he denies ever supporting it

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There's a push to have Alberta Premier Jason Kenney join his former federal colleagues in apologizing for a controversial niqab policy that was introduced a decade ago.

NDP demands Jason Kenney apologize for 10-year-old federal niqāb policy

Some federal Conservative MPs are apologizing for implementing a controversial policy banning Muslim women from wearing niqabs while taking Canada's citizenship oath. Now, there's a push to have Alberta Premier Jason Kenney join his former federal colleagues. As Fletcher Kent explains, the opposition NDP argues the policy helped stoke Islamophobia.

 

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Obey the rules of the Country u asked to live in

No place for religion outside a church or whatever. Remove these garbs

Cons love to rewrite history.

Mayyybe, one of those days, the ROC will understand why laicity and secular governmental authorities are a good thing...

No one should ever have to apologize for not supporting religion

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