Stéphanie3h ago

Air Canada is subject to the Official Languages Act.

Air Canada's CEO has lived in Montréal for 20 years.

Air Canada's CEO promised to learn French 5 years ago.

Air Canada's CEO makes over 10 millions CAD every year.

Air Canada's linguistic plan says: "We also promote and advocate for the use of English and French in the workplace.
Our organization has language obligations, and supporting our efforts to be accountable to and meet these obligations are our employees who seize language training opportunities. Air Canada has developed and continues to grow a robust repository of resources and tools to champion language learning for our employees."

Show threadanyGould3h ago
@stephanie Counterpoint - do we really expect him to repeat every sentence he says, every day of the year? Are we not just training these execs to *not* put a personal touch on things and just let the PR department spit out a standard statement duly translated?
Show threadStéphanie3h ago

@anyGould Giving a message to the family and community of a dead pilot vs repeating every single sentence he ever says.

Come on.

Show threadanyGould2h ago
@stephanie I'd be more pissed if the family message is a public statement and not an actual phone call. But the point stands - we really expect him to repeat himself? We don't expect the PM or MPs to do that.
Show threadStéphanie2h ago
@anyGould What are you even talking about. The PM and MPs do it *every day*. Or they alternate between both in a speech.
Show threadanyGould2h ago
@stephanie Alternate isn't what they're calling for here though, is it? They wanted him to say the whole thing twice. (And being from Alberta, I promise you most of those CPC MPs stopped taking French in grade 6. :/ )
Show threadJérôme

@anyGould @stephanie

The flight was from Montreal with tons of francophone people on it. The pilot deceased is Quebecois. We, as francophone, are asking what is supposed to be our national airline, to have a proper message addressing the tragedy in our language. This CEO is an embarrassment and sadly represents the state of bilingualism in our country

#aircanada

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Show threadRenata 🇨🇦🐈2h ago
@jerome @anyGould @stephanie I'm not Francophone and I agree with your sentiment. It's a shame he can't do the statement in both languages and respect the primary language of the pilot.
Show threadStéphanie2h ago
@renata @jerome @anyGould The pilot was from Coteau-du-Lac. 90% of the population of this little town is francophone.
Show threadWTL2h ago
@stephanie @renata @jerome @anyGould Oh wow. I grew up around there.