Canada's Minister of Transportation has ordered a probe after a video posted on YouTube showed 2 fully veiled women boarding a passenger plane without showing their faces. Canadian authorities want to ensure that Airline personnel are verifying the identity of all of passengers before they board a flight. The video purportedly shows a group of passengers boarding an AIR CANADA flight from Montreal's Pierre-Elliott Trudeau Airport to London's Heathrow airport on July 11. The short clip, shot by a British traveller, shows a man boarding a flight with 4 women, 2 with face veils, 2 without. The man hands their passports, and the veiled women are allowed to board, as seen in picture above, apparently without showing their faces. The footage is shot at a distance and it is impossible to see what happens next. "If the reports are true, the situation is deeply disturbing and poses a serious threat to the security of the air travelling public," Minister John Baird said in a statement. "If our current security policies in this area are deemed to be lacking, our government will take the necessary steps to protect the safety and security of the travelling public".
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