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Author: Toula Drimonis
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There’s nothing progressive or feminist about Quebec’s Bill 62
You cannot emancipate women forced to wear the niqab abroad by forcing women here to remove it.
November 16 2017
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Quebec’s niqab ban isn’t feminism at work; it’s just one more heinous example of society regulating women’s bodies.

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There’s nothing progressive or feminist about Quebec’s Bill 62

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