FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Air Canada CEO apologizes, commits to learning French as backlash in Quebec grows
Old Nov 4, 2021 | 1:59 pm
  #12  
The Lev
FlyerTalk Evangelist
2M
50 Countries Visited
All eyes on you!
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC*SE 2MM
Posts: 18,328
Originally Posted by tcook052
Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau has apologized and committed to improving his French amid heavy backlash by federal and Quebec officials, including the premier today, who called Rousseau's comments on Wednesday shocking and disrespectful.
What he probably really wanted to say was it's none of the government's business what language he speaks and if theirs noses are so out of joint, he will gladly leave AC's notional head office in Montreal to satisfy legislative restrictions but decamp to Toronto with the rest of the executive team where nobody worries about what language people do or do not speak and understand.

Originally Posted by jasdou
It shouldn't be mutually exclusive.
Have you tried learning a new language as an adult?

Last edited by Adam Smith; Nov 4, 2021 at 2:07 pm Reason: Merge consecutive posts by same user
The Lev is online now