And yet you find it disrespectful to be spoken to by an obscured face. 
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2017 , we’ve had internet forums for forty years, and yet some still insist on eye contact. No thanks. I don’t like dominance moves and I find it disrespectful when somebody locks eye contact.
Yes, that’s what I understood from the headline I saw but couldn’t find; sorry I wasn’t clearer.
Most of those aren’t public servants providing public services… we’ll find better examples in healthcare workers and municipal workers doing outside work (face coverings in winter, sunglasses year round). A lot of municipal and especially provincial road workers are not direct public employees but rather employed by private subcontractors, but they’re doing work paid for with public funds, so…
Seems pretty clear that they intended the public service provisions to be about office workers in public-facing positions, but as you say it really wasn’t thought through at all.
All the lawyers I know in Ontario are shaking their heads at this. They have no idea how this is enforceable at all. Its literally a charter of rights violation. If you tried to do this here in the province, you’d get a charter application against it so fast you’d get whiplash. I’m going to bet it doesn’t last the year.
The law is so dead in the water it’s kind of hard to believe they aren’t planning on it being struck down. Maybe they don’t have any guidance to public servants because it wasn’t even designed to be enforced. It looks kind of like a political ploy designed to allow the government to make themselves out as standing up to the rest of Canada in service of Quebec values.
“Quebec Values” - honestly this is going to hurt them more than help them. Its so nuts.
That’s good. High heels should never be mandatory.
I wonder… Does this law apply to police with faces covered by riot gear? (Ha, of course not.)
Oh Quebec, you cray.
I saw that “backtracking”. It’s total nonsense. I guess when you write a stupid and badly worded law you might as well go on to interpret it in a nonsensical way.
While there was no sudden, overnight transformation, Ispahani nevertheless identifies Zia’s rule as the point of no return. The military ruler Islamized the laws of the country, introducing sharia courts and new Islamic laws known as hudood ordinances, which apply strict Sharia punishments for specific offenses. It was during his time that the blasphemy laws were strengthened, adding life sentences and the death penalty as punishment.
I’m sensing a pattern here…
There is a long tradition of imperialists getting bitten in the arse by their own scheming. Lenin entered Russia on a train specially arranged by the Germans.
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