Two people face assault charges after members of a white supremacist group protesting a decision to allow veiled voting faced off against anti-racism demonstrators outside Calgary City Hall on Sunday.
About a dozen members of the white supremacist group Aryan Guard were demonstrating against a decision that lets Muslim women wear niqabs or burkas while voting in Monday’s municipal elections in Calgary, Edmonton and other Alberta communities.
It’s the first time that veiled voting has been permitted in the province’s municipal elections. Elections Canada also recently decided to allow veiled voting if Muslim women prefer to keep their faces covered for religious reasons. They are to prove their identification in other ways.
The Aryan Guard group covered their faces with ski masks and waved flags and banners.
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