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By LORNE GUNTER, POSTMEDIA NETWORK

Back in 2015, the Harper Tories were pushing a niqab ban for Muslim women being sworn in as Canadian citizens and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was on a rampage.

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According to Trudeau, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was guilty of using people’s prejudices to create “political wedges” just to attract votes.

Trudeau accused Harper of “stirring up the politics of fear and division in a way that quite frankly is unworthy of the office he holds … He needs to stop because no election win is worth pitting Canadians against Canadians.”

Following their victory over the Tories in October 2015, the Trudeau Liberals made great show of dropping Harper’s Supreme Court appeal to uphold the niqab ban. Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould personally called Zunera Ishaq to inform her the Liberals were ending Ottawa’s legal action.

Ishaq was the Canadian Muslim at the centre of the Tories’ court challenge.