A camel, goes the saying, is a horse designed by a committee. That’s an apt metaphor for the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision last month on whether a woman should be allowed to hide her face behind a niqab while testifying in a courtroom.
The court was split, and the four-member majority finally reached a compromise – but what’s a compromise that is unworkable and that will achieve nothing but a further muddling of the issue? [The Globe and Mail] Read more
