For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.
Jason KenneyThere's not a word in the Quran or the Hadith that requires that women cover their faces. To the contrary, the only requirement is that they uncover their faces when they're doing the haj.
Jason KenneyRural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.
Jason KenneyYou ought not to accept the claim that this is a religious practice. I think that's, frankly, problematic for Islam, for well-intentioned Liberals like you to say that this is a religious practice when the overwhelming consensus of Islamic scholars around the world, and the overwhelming majority of Canadian Muslims, believe this has absolutely - that the niqab as face covering, that this symbol of misogyny has nothing to do with Islam.
Jason Kenney