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Panel Discussion | The Niqab & Canadian Citizenship

Dec 26th 2011
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The Niqab and Canadian Citizenship

Date: Thursday, December 22 2011
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, Noor Cultural Centre
Admission: Free


In the wake of last year’s Bill C-94 in Quebec (which would have withheld certain public services from women wearing the niqab) and this month’s announcement banning the niqab during Canadian citizenship oath-taking by the Hon. Jason Kenney (Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Culture), the niqab and its place in Canada have become hot topics in Canadian public discourse.  The purpose of this panel discussion is to present a balanced discussion of the various interests represented in the debate.

Featuring

A Canadian woman who wears the niqab.

Raheel Raza is a journalist, author, filmmaker, diversity consultant, interfaith advocate and public speaker who has been weighing in on the compatibility of the niqab with Canadian values.

Faisal Bhabha is a lawyer and university professor at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, who previously sat as Vice-Chair of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.  He represented the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) as an intervener in the Supreme Court Case regarding a woman’s right to wear the niqab while testifying in court.





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