Consistency

I just want to come back to the controversy that arose after women were allowed to vote veiled in the Quebec by-elections. Initially, there was a consensus among political parties that the law should be changed to ban people from voting with their faces covered, but the Liberals are threatening to reverse their position.

I certainly hope they do, because a measure banning women from voting veiled would be an extremely discriminatory measure.

In the last election which was held in the middle of January, tens of thousands of senior Canadians spending the winter in the southern US voted by mail-in ballot. This, simply required them to fill of a form downloadable off the internet and mail it back to Canada before Janary 6th. There was no personal contact required between them and any electoral officers.

Obviously, no leader would be crazy enough to stop the snowbids from voting from the Southern US. That's just fine. But lease then, don't ban women from voted veiled because they don't show their full identity.