The anti-niqab sentiment on the campaign trail is having local fallout.

Some London Muslims are worried about their safety, in a country they call home.

Rezam Mosa, a Vancouver native and a student at Brescia University College, wears a niqab.

She made the decision more than a year ago after researching it for years and decided it was the right thing for her.

“It's been a pretty positive experience overall,” she says.

When the niqab became a campaign issue recently, Mosa says she noticed a shift in attitude for the first time after living in London for 19 years.

People started saying things such as, “Go back to your country. This is Canada.”

Muslims in this community feel they have been singled out during this election.

“It's simply not Canadian. It's not of our values,” says Imam Abd Alfatah Twakkal of the London Muslim Mosque.

He says this election should be about real issue, not about what Muslim women choose to wear.

"This is not the Canada I was born and raised in. The Canada I was born and raised in was very inclusive. It was not pandering towards these sentiments of fear.”

The issue of the niqab entered the campaign when the Conservatives said they would not allow them during the citizenship ceremony, something both the Liberals and NDP disagree with.

On Wednesday, Conservative leader Stephen Harper said that if elected, his party would consider banning the niqab in federal public service.

That worries Mosa when it comes time for her to find a career.

“It will definitely impact the work that I do. It is a concern for me and I would hope that in the future, it's not something I have to deal with.