Under certain circumstances, the government should have the right to tell people what not to wear, but this burqa ban goes too far.
For example, if someone wants a driver's license or another sort of identification like a passport, then they need to show their face for the photo, or else anyone else with the same burqa or niqab could use it and it would be completely meaningless as a form of identification.
My daughter and I were shopping a few years ago and we saw a woman whose face except for her eyes was covered with a hijab. My daughter, who I think was six or seven and did not know how to be quiet, started asking me why the lady's face was covered and very loudly said, "What's wrong with her face?" The woman was very kind and uncovered her face to show my daughter that there was nothing wrong with it, it was her religious custom to wear a veil to show respect because she was a Muslim. Starting then, my daughter has wanted to become a Muslim so she too could cover her face with a veil. When I told her I did not want to become a Muslim because Muslim men can have four wives and in some muslim countries, women are not allowed to drive a car, she thought that would be really cool to have a husband with three other wives.