Religion is treated as personal not institutional under our Charter. If one personally regards the burka/niqab to be an important part of their religious beliefs, then it is. Their is nothing in the Bible about wearing a cross, but this has become, for many, an important symbol of ones religious identity and is therefore also protected under the Charter. This has been explained many many times on this forum, yet proponents of this law refuse to accept this fact always returning to the same flawed argument to claim it's not religion cause it's not in a book.