MONTREAL — The nation’s unemployed are pleased to hear that the main topic of political conversation will be about whether a very small minority of women have a religious right to cover their faces with a religious garb during a citizenship ceremony for yet another time.
“This will definitely determine who I vote for,” said Serge Dumont, an out-of-work aerospace engineer who has been looking for work for the past 3 months. “It’s important that this issue be brought up again and again until my EI runs out.”
Katie Duprée, a recent master’s graduate and single mother who has not been able to find a stable job, was enthused politicians and online commentators, have been arguing about a topic that hasn’t affected her in the slightest.
“I used to be really angry and sad about the struggles to pay for groceries to feed my children,” explained Duprée. “But the niqab has given me something else to be sad and angry about.”
The unemployed were not the only ones glad to hear the leaders talk about a wedge issue they haven’t even heard of until last week.
“I sure hope this debate will go on forever,” said Julie St-Henri, a senior who can’t afford her prescription drugs.
According to sources, many First Nations communities are no longer concerned about access to clean drinking water and instead have focused all of their attention on a woman’s right to wear a piece of fabric while pledging allegiance to the Queen who lives in England.
