Western Europe knows full well what comes from attempts to appease fundamentalists under the guise of diversity and the results speak for themselves: social division, community segregation, and female subjugation. Violence against the LGBT community, no reproductive rights, no equal marriage rights - all commonplace where the face covering is common - and Canada should accommodate this belief system? The reason that ideas of "modesty" are not common in Canada has absolutely nothing to do with culture, it is simply about progress. Canada is an advanced progressive country and the belief system associated with face coverings is only common in countries that are regressive, authoritarian, and hostile to gender equality. Canada isn't "different" - Canada is advanced. Political Islam or Islamism is synonymous with social regression - just look at every single country "governed" by religious law (face coverings is a symbol of political Islamism).