Court to decide about MNAs with covered faces

The Court of Appeal is arguing this week on whether someone can run for provincial office or sit as an MNA with her face covered – not with a Covid mask, that is, but with a niqab. Bill 21, the law on laïcité, says she cannot, but this was invalidated by a court judgement at some point.

Now the Legault government wants to reinstate the law that nobody can sit as an MNA while wearing niqab.

Nobody has ever run for election in Quebec in niqab, let alone been elected or tried to sit, but never mind. Lots of detail here on whether she could run but not sit, or sit but not be allowed to become a government minister, with her face covered.

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin will be decided later.