Quebec Fails to 'Accommodate' Shroud-Wearers

Another example of Quebec "bigotry," as reported by Graeme Hamilton in the National Post:

In recent years, the few fully veiled Muslim women who had dealings with Quebec's health-insurance board could choose to be served by a woman to avoid exposing their faces to a man outside their family.

But in the latest example of the province's growing resistance to the accommodation of minority religious practices, the insurance board yesterday announced the end of the policy after the provincial human rights commission said it has no duty to acquiesce.

"From now on, for a woman who is veiled with a niqab or a burka and comes to our office asking to be photographed by a woman, the answer is no," said Marc Lortie, spokesman for the Regie de l'assurance maladie du Quebec. "Line up again, or come back another day."...

Complaint to Quebec "human rights" commission in ten, nine, eight, seven...