It's never been mandated by an Islamist government in Quebec. If somebody is wearing it here, it's presumed by choice. If a person is in fact being forced, you have an abusive situation, which will be helped NOT AT ALL by preventing that person from getting access to government services. Exactly the opposite, in fact. Anybody who claims this is justified by any kind of concern for the WOMEN is just crazy.

Now, if a bunch of people who'd moved to Quebec were objecting to seeing veils because it reminded them of their own past oppression, I guess they might have some kind of case, just as black people in the US have a case against the Confederate flag, and Indians in Quebec might have a pretty strong case against the cross or the fleur de lis (or the Union Jack and maybe the maple leaf). Even then banning veils specifically for access to government services wouldn't be much help.

But in fact the number of such objectors is zero. That's not what this is about. It's about xenophobia.