Rights
of Sikhs Affirmed
From 1986 to 1996 the World
Sikh Organization participated in the alteration of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police Dress Code Policy to include the rights of minorities to
wear their religious head-gear. These efforts culminated in an official
policy, announced in 1990, by then Solicitor General Pierre Cadieux, allowing
Sikhs to wear turbans in the RCMP. On May 13, the first turbaned Sikh officer,
Baltej Dhillon, viewed here, graduates from the RCMP College. [Photo, courtesy
World Sikh Organization]