On a similar but expanded note, if and only if you are a practicing Sikh who wears a turban, you are then exempt from the motorcycle helmet law but only if you
precisely meet the following:
Quote:Motorcycle helmets are mandatory in British Columbia and must be worn by all riders. An exception is granted for people who practice the Sikh religion, who have unshorn hair and habitually wear a turban composed of 5 or more square meters of cloth.
http://www.britishcolumbia.com/information/details.asp?id=6
Whoa Nelly! Are the RCMP gong to stop me and measure the surface area of my turban? Are the RCMP gong to stop me and try to assess if I have unshorn hair - whatever the hell that precisely means? Are the RCMP gong to stop me to try and assess if I habitually wear one? Are the RCMP gong to stop me to try and disprove my religiosity / culture? What if you believe yourself to be a Sikh, but do not agree with Guru Nanak's teachings and lifestyles when it comes to "adopting the role of the soldier" and you in all sincerity inform the RCMP thusly?
How ******* bizarre is that?
The absurdity of all this comes from that fact that said religion/culture must be one that is a Canadian officially recognized religion/culture, which naturally enough begs the question: By what rational reasonable logic does the Canadian government decide what religion/culture it will official recognize and by what rational reasonable logic does the Canadian government decide what religion/culture will not officially recognize?
I claim that there is no rational reasonable logic that can be identified as to why the Canadian government
should officially recognize some religion/cultures but not others. I further claim that such assessments are in fact arbitrary and therefore inherently unfair.
I further state that this unfair arbitrariness as imposed the Canadian government's official recognition of only some religion/cultures is exacerbated by the falsehood of official Canadian Multiculturalism.
I assert that Official Canadian Multiculturalism cannot be rationally reasonably logical unless or until it is in actuality applied with equality to all religion/cultures without bias or judgment.
It's the same concerns as to when Canada officially recognizes only certain religion/cultures for the purposes of special tax treatments or other economic / legal / social advantage under such idealized but inherently unfair pretenses as Canadian Multiculturalism.
As another example witness Canadian officially recognized religion's tax exempt status versus Canadian unrecognized religion's potentially taxable status.