What are you hiding?

Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser is tabling a bill to address hate crimes and the promotion of hate against all various groups of people in public spaces and private businesses and homes. This is a good thing, since the incidence of promoting hate both verbally and by actions has exploded in the last two-plus years. There is one thing missing from his proposed bill, and that would be to make it illegal and a violation of this new bill to wear any kind of face-covering while involved in a protest or similar demonstration that may involve the usual tools to signal and promote hate against a specific group of people. Why would anyone need to hide their face if they aren’t doing something illegal? You hide your identity if you don’t want to be identified because you a

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