Air Canada's President and CEO Michael Rousseau has come under fire for not being able to speak or understand the French language.
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Who cares?
Apparently he does.
@Planet Vegan Well he should not if he wants
Google translate can help bridge this sort of gap?
The Governor General…..
@Zoluzé Do they speak French in Montreal anymore.
@Al Electric barely. Everytime Ive been to Montreal, all I hear is English being spoken
@Rupert Periwinkle It’s because you’re probably in the tourist areas.
@Zoluzé He is also a busy many who is older and probably does not have time to take lessons!!! Maybe he does not have an ear for languages!!!!
@Jules Roche-Pilotto His job is to run Air Canada and not learn languages!!
How many Canadians can understand french? Not me.
Consider this guy coming to Toronto and making a speech only in French but saying “Hi, I’m Mr.Rousseau and today I’ll be talking about …” in the beginning… Are you kidding me? What was he expecting from Quebecers?
C’est à peu près le temps que tu l’apprennes.
@About Rex Ya gotta be kidding?
😂😂😂 on s en calice tu de ce que tu pense tu n es rien 😂😂😂
@About Rex on s en calice tu de ce qu il pense il n est rien 😂😂😂
We have bigger problems omg.
@Jules Roche-Pilotto Sensitive much.
@Jules Roche-Pilotto His job is to manage Air Canada, he’s not a politician. I’d rather have a competent unilingual(even if french only) vs a mediocre bilingual CEO. That’s not to say there are issues with Air Canada.
@Mohamed Abdourahman companies that have a lot of technology just don’t need french speakers. To support these technologies all the support is in English. So it’s understandable why he doesn’t speak French.
@Jules Roche-Pilotto I lived in Quebec for 7 yrs and tried to learn and speak it BUT the French always switched to English because my accent was not FRENCH!!!
@Mohamed Abdourahman AGREE!!!!
He is CEO, not PM.
… dont forget lazy
🚨❤️🕺🎡Ya llegué temprano mi gente Bella 📺🎥🎞🍿🙋🏻♂️
He’s not A politician
He’s not vegan either.
@Planet Vegan how do you know?
Why must Canada always be in denial that English is the main language .? all things considered
You mean broken english?
@Planet Vegan Beats broken French
Hell English is the Standard International Language for the entire planet.
Nobody cares. In BC French is barley used. I would never expect a CEO to know it.
im surprised anybody does
Love it or leave it.
But, the dude is from Quebec. He was raised in Montreal and he has a French family name..
this definitely going to make stocks go down, but not for long only for SHORTS
Do you not have anything better to report on?! It seriously isnt that big a deal!
It’s ok most of the GTA can’t speak english
Well Trudeau can’t speak English pwopelly so there you go.
Properly
His French is worst.
Absurd that anyone would care.
J’en ai assez de ce mépris canadien. Vivement maîtres chez NOUS.
It’s disgusting to me that he has to apologize for this.
😂😂😂😂😂
TOTALLY ABSURD!!!!!!!
A perfect example of trying to make a story out of nothing.
SO agree!!!
Why would he need to know French?
I worked for Air Canada and tried to learn French and when I went to Montreal and spoke French with an English Accent the French switched to English …………….cause I did not have the correct accent!!! THIS IS A NON ISSUE and has nothing to do with respecting the FRENCH or french culture!! NON ISSUE!!!!