“and how do you get a drivers license or a passport without showing your face?”

You can’t (at least I don’ think so). But that’s probably because the regulations say that a photo needs to be taken and the type of photo is specified.

They didn’t do that for voting. They just assumed that the photo would be used to check the identity. The legislation should have been more clear.

why should I be punished because someone does not celebrate Christmas?

You’re not being punished. If you want a pageant celebrating a Christian holiday, contact a Christian church about putting one one.

because they are traditions that have been in placed for many many generations

And yet, Western tradition superseded those of the First Nations who populated the country before us. If we’re going to argue about keeping something because of traditions, then maybe it is the white people who should be living on reserves.

Society evolves. If we accept that the first nations had to accept the changes in the nation’s society 100 years ago, so we, too, must accept the way our society is changing now. We cannot clamour for the preservation of our current (or recently previous) society when that society nearly wiped out that of another people. Unless of course we’re die hard hegemonists. But one would think we’ve advanced beyond 19th-century imperialism.

Schools are state schools not religious schools.. why are they allowed to not have to sing the Canadian Anthem at school assembly?

What would be served in forcing people to sing the national anthem?

fair to who?

Everyone. The state should be separate from religion, and in state-sponsored schools, this includes religious holidays. The school is in the business of providing an education, not in promoting religion. Especially a single religion. Either promote them all, or promote none of them.

Likewise, I don’t see why a school not showing Christmas pageants would take away from one’s religious beliefs.

Making those changes would be going against their religious principles.

Their religious principles prevent them from unveiling in front of men. They could easily unveil in private, in front of women officiators.

Of course our Christian religious principles didn’t count when school Christmas pageants were all canceled because some did not celebrate Christmas.

Likewise, the schools don’t celebrate Hanukkah or Ramadan. It’s only fair they treat all religious holidays equally.