The federal government says it's reviewing the recently launched constitutional challenge to Quebec's controversial face-covering ban.
A coalition of Muslim and civil liberty groups filed the complaint in Quebec Superior Court on Tuesday.
The challenge contests portions of Quebec's religious neutrality law under both Quebec's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The law requires those giving or receiving public services to do so with their faces uncovered.
"We have been following the progress of Bill 62 and appreciate the importance of the issues it raises. As the prime minister has said, we do not believe that the government should be telling people what they can and cannot wear," said Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould in statement. [CBC News] Read more
