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31.03.26 - 20:06
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Air Canada CEO Out After Admitting In PR Video That He Can′t Speak French (ZeroHedge)
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Air Canada CEO Out After Admitting In PR Video That He Can't Speak French
Michael Rousseau is on his way out as head of Air Canada, after a crisis response that somehow made a bad situation worse - and then kept digging.
The backdrop: a fatal March 22 crash at LaGuardia Airport involving a flight from Montreal to New York City. Two pilots were killed.
Rousseau responded with a video offering his “deepest sorrow for everyone affected,” but delivered almost all of it in English, tossing in a token “bonjour” and “merci” like that would smooth things over, according to Bloomberg.
It did not.
In Quebec—where language politics are less “preference” and more “contact sport”—the backlash was immediate.
The National Assembly of Quebec unanimously called for him to go, and Prime Minister Mark Carney slammed the video as a “lack of judgment and lack of compassion.” Notably, one of the deceased pilots was from Quebec, which made the whole thing land even worse.
Rousseau tried ...
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31.03.26 - 16:54
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Air Canada CEO′s French Fiasco Touches a Nerve in Restive Quebec (Bloomberg)
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Michael Rousseau took more than 300 hours of French lessons after he became chief executive officer of Air Canada. But when he faced the camera to read a solemn statement after a fatal ground collision in New York last week, he uttered only two words in the language: “bonjour” and “merci.”...
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30.03.26 - 18:36
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Air Canada CEO to resign after backlash to video tribute of pilots killed in crash (The Guardian)
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Michael Rousseau faced mockery for speaking English and not French while addressing fatal LaGuardia airport crashThe head of Canada's largest airline is stepping down after his video tribute to pilots killed in a fatal collision became a public relations nightmare for Air Canada, prompting a wave of mockery and indignation at him from both the public and politicians for not speaking French.Air Canada's CEO, Michael Rousseau, will retire by the end of the third quarter of 2026, the company said Monday. He will continue to lead the company and serve on the board of directors until that time, the carrier said. Continue reading......
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30.03.26 - 16:30
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Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau To Retire (AFX)
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OTTAWA (dpa-AFX) - Air Canada (AC.TO) announced that Michael Rousseau has informed the Board that he will retire by the end of the third quarter of 2026. The Board stated that it will consider a n......
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