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The figure is included in a document obtained in an access to information request filed by CBC News.The former Conservative government lost in Federal Court and again at the Federal Court of Appeal before going all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada to try to reinstate its ban on women wearing a niqab while taking the citizenship oath.
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