We should start teaching Canadians, especially young Canadians and new Canadians, about the Enlightenment, and how the power of reason, criticism and questioning of religion hundreds of years ago began a flourishing of humanism, intellectual achievement and social progress. (Humanism, criticism of religion and challenging religious authority concerning every aspect of life and in human affairs was a prerequisite for all the progress made in the last 400 years.)

I can't imagine a teenage girl or any woman with at least half-a-brain learning of the struggle for an enlightened, liberal and secular society (not forgetting equal rights for women) then turning around and thinking it's cool to put on an Islamic religious-fundamentalist burka when the purpose of the burka is to make meaningful communications and normal social interactions for women and girls impossible except within their own families.