Stéphanie11h 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 threadanyGould11h 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 threadRyan9h ago

@anyGould @stephanie the CEO not being able to speak French when the situation demands it sends a message to the people in the organization and to the francophone community that Air Canada does not value the French language or francophone communities.

This is unacceptable from someone in this position in a federally regulated industry. He should step aside and let someone actually qualified take over the role.

Show threadCeleste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈
@Dunstable @anyGould @stephanie especially for someone who got the positing, which lists bilingualism among its requirements, without actually being bilingual but promising to learn French, which, three years later, he still hasn’t done or else he’d have been able to say even the most basic sentence during that whole video
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