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Amira Elghawaby
| August 21, 2015

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper famously said women who wear the face veil while taking their citizenship oath should know that it "isn't the way we do things here" in Canada. Amira Elghawaby explores.

Amira Elghawaby is Communications Director, NCCM and rabble.ca contributing editor.

 

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