It's about strength, you know.

Sure, I don't like the niqab, I don't like what it stands for, but does it threaten my identity as a Canadian?, are you mad?, perhaps I spent too much time watching American television and movies as a kid, but it's going to take a hell of a lot more than 0.00000000001 percent of the population embracing archaic discriminatory traditions to come into conflict with my confident sense of self.

Ridiculous.

It shouldn't even be an issue.

Segregating and outcasting minorities is more offensive than the niqab, and it only causes the segregated to resent the population at large.

Leave them be, let their children grow up in a multicultural environment where gender equality is sought after.

They're much more likely to discard the niqab having grown up in a tolerant environment than in one which enflames hatred.

Which is what the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois are trying to do.

And if they don't discard the niqab, they will still only make up 0.00000000001 percent of the population.

Like snake charmers or mollusk worshippers.

Who cares?