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Air Canada’s CEO to retire after failing to issue condolences in French

Rob Beschizza
Mar 31, 2026
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Michael Rousseau in an Air Canada publicity photo

A high-speed collission between a fire truck and an Air Canada jet making an emergency landing at LaGuardia airport claimed the lives of the two pilots and hospitalized many others. Then Air Canada’s CEO made it worse: he issued condolences in English, but failed to do so in French. It was a scandalous om…

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