Faces should be bare for ceremony

There isn’t a community in the world that would accept a new member sight unseen. We allow people to join our community. We do research on their backgrounds; we check that they have no criminal record; we assure ourselves that their status is what they say it is. Then we offer them all the rights and privileges that go along with Canadian citizenship.

That we should ask them to be unveiled at this moment of acceptance into our community is not exactly unreasonable.

They can cover their faces to their heart’s content for the rest of their lives. But if citizenship has any meaning for them, then they should proudly show their faces at the ceremony. We shouldn’t even have to pass a law to that effect. Sandy Cytrynbaum, Montreal