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Burka ban
Kate Chappell
July 28, 2010 | 3 Comments
Seeing as we have been discussing this issue a lot, I thought I would post the results of a QMI poll about a burka ban. The nation-wide poll of 1,526 people found that 54 per cent of Canadians would support a ban on women wearing burkas in public for safety and transparency reasons. Among “older” [...]
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