The excerpt posted did not make that clear, nor was it clear that it was only an excerpt of the whole article.
Apparently CATSA security people don’t feel this is their role, either, but the airlines thought that it was. I think all this stuff about how the veil is part of their religion is bull, and I really wish we, as a society, would stand up for once and say “There is one set of rules for everyone, regardless of your personal beliefs.”
Canadian airport security personnel do not ask veiled Muslims women to lift their veils, show and ID, and prove their identity; the veiled women do not even interact with security personnel: rather, a man traveling with the women typically hands in all the passports and is the only one to communicate with airline staff while the veiled women simply walk through, unchecked and unidentified; a video showing two veiled women walking unchecked through security at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport causes outrage in Canada.