Canada Orders Investigation After Veiled Women Permittted To Board Plane Without Facial Identification

Canada's Transport Minister John Baird said on Sunday (full text of statement ) that he has ordered an investigation of whether airlines are properly applying the country's Identity Screening Regulations after the media reported widely on a YouTube video showing two veiled women boarding a plane in Montreal without being asked to show their faces.  CTV News (which links to the video) reports that it was posted on YouTube under the caption: "A major Canadian airline risks your safety, pandering to Muslim sensibilities." Many viewers of the clip on YouTube wrote inflammatory comments.