| Canada's Minister of Transportation John Baird ordered a probe after a video posted on YouTube showed two fully veiled women boarding a passenger airplane without showing their faces. Canadian authorities want to ensure that the airline personnel are verifying the identity of all passengers before they board. 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 four women, two with face veils and the other two without. The man handed their passports, and the veiled women were allowed to board, 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," Baird said in a statement on Sunday. |