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Canada is never going to get used to the niqab.

Niqab bans will be overturned and niqab rights are becoming increasingly enshrined in Canadian law. Nevertheless, there remain millions of Canadians—Muslim and non-Muslim alike—who will forever be put off by riding public transit on a hot day and seeing a man clad in shorts and t-shirt while his wife swelters under a full-body covering of black fabric.

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But how to rid the country of this garment? If all options were on the table, what would be the most effective way to bring Canada’s niqab era to a definitive close?

The answer: Nothing. Don’t do anything. Don’t ban them in public, don’t keep them out of courtrooms and certainly don’t ban religious head coverings from soccer or hockey games.

While new immigrants have been widely shown to crank out a disproportionate number of kids once on Canadian soil, the birth rate drops off precipitously for the second generation.

Just sit back, grit your teeth, and wait: If Canadian history is any lesson, the niqab has precisely one generation to live.

About 100 years ago, Canadian were worried about another mysterious immigrant group: Ukrainians.