@TristinHopper @otanderson So the uniliqual Gov General was tone deaf and lacking compassion as well?
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Gerry Ritz
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Gerry Ritz
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Retired Member of Parliament. Former Ag Minister.Director for Dominion Blockchain .com. improving prosperity for Ag families through Technology
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Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada has addressed the growing controversy over Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau's unilingual response to Sunday night's fatal collision in New York.
While the mayor said it was not her role to decide whether Rousseau should resign — something a provincial minister called for on Wednesday — she added that she understands why others are calling for it.
"Treating people with dignity also means speaking their language," she said. “And I think he failed in that regard — not just once, but on several occasions now.”
Full story: montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/ai…
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Agreed it was insensitive for Air Canada's CEO to only verbally address the tragedy in which a Quebec pilot died in English. But if the Liberals wanted a bilingual CEO they could have required it in Bill C-13 in 2023. They rejected it (along with the Conservatives) at committee.
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If I gave the Air Canada speech I would have added some French to it. Specifically a section speaking to the family of Captain Forest.
I'm not a fan of two exact speeches in each language. I like the flow of alternating different paragraphs- kind of like the bilingual version of the National Anthem. 👇
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The flying fraud caught again… @MarkJCarney
Mario Zelaya@mario4thenorth
🚨 BREAKING Carney gets caught. RED HANDED. This morning my spruce called Carney’s Nepean constituency office: IT WAS ALL ENGLISH. No French. Not bilingual. This is the same PM who said the Air Canada CEO’s English-only condolence video showed “a lack of judgment and compassion.” The same PM who said Air Canada has “a responsibility to communicate in both official languages, regardless of the situation.” I called his office an hour ago: THEY QUIETLY SWITCHED IT TO FRENCH. I HAVE RECEIPTS. This same Parliament voted three years ago NOT to require the Air Canada CEO to speak French. Only the Bloc voted for it. They chose not to make it mandatory. Then summoned the CEO for not doing it. Two pilots are dead. A fire truck with no transponder on an active runway & one controller doing two jobs. And Ottawa spent the day policing the language of a grief video while the PM’s own office wasn’t even compliant? UNTIL HE GOT CAUGHT? Rules for thee. Never for me. Trudeau 2.0.
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«Respecter les gens avec dignité, c’est leur parler dans leur langue»: la mairesse Soraya Martinez s’indigne des souhaits en anglais seulement de Michael Rousseau journaldemontreal.com/2026/03/25/res…
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@historyinmemes But Trump got the multi billion $ energy deal. Carney got a thank you card!
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney impressed the Japanese prime minister by speaking Japanese, fostering goodwill and mutual respect between the two countries.
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🚔 Speaking as someone who has seized firearms and was an RCMP-certified Firearms Verifier:
This “gun buyback” is pure ideological garbage.
It targets the most vetted, licenced, law-abiding Canadians while completely ignoring the criminals flooding our streets with smuggled handguns.
Canadians and the majority of police services have every right to denounce it and refuse to participate.
Liberals and anti-gun activists who know nothing about firearms are criminalizing millions of responsible citizens… all for cheap political optics and Quebec votes.
Enough. Cancel this farce.
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Gun control group criticizes Ottawa over 'poor participation' in firearm buyback ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…
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'We're taking back control': Carney defends his record on immigration after damning auditor report nationalpost.com/news/were-taki…
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@MarcNixon24 Arrested? On what grounds and under what authority?
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NEW LOW
Gary Anandasangaree is looking for retired police to enforce the liberal gun GRAB
IMAGINE A RETIRED POLICE OFFICER ARRESTING YOU AND THROWS YOU IN JAIL
FOR NOT TURNING IN YOUR GUNS
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Air Canada has gone 43 (!) years without a fatal incident. My entire life up to this point has been lived in a country where the flag carrier never got a single person killed in a crash. The record is a totem to what serious people can accomplish. So naturally, Mark Carney is screaming at them to instead focus on nonsense.
Harrison Faulkner@Harry__Faulkner
PM Mark Carney on Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau delivering a video address only in English: "I'm very disappointed, as others are, rightly so, in this unilingual message of the CEO...lack of judgement and a lack of compassion."
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@manofbird So the Governor General was lazy, tone deaf and disrespectful as well?
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Here’s the deal, hosers. The pushback on the unilingual English statement from Air Canada might seem petty to you, but it cuts deep in Quebec. It’s lazy, tone deaf and disrespectful to Antoine Forest’s family and friends, and it was avoidable. THAT is what diminishes the tragedy.
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Air Canada should fire CEO over his of lack of French: Quebec minister montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/ai…
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If this is your primary focus of this tragedy then there is something seriously wrong with you.
Si c'est là votre principale préoccupation face à cette tragédie, alors il y a quelque chose de profondément anormal chez vous.
Le Devoir@LeDevoir
Ottawa dénonce la vidéo unilingue de Michael Rousseau après la tragédie d’Air Canada ledevoir.com/politique/cana…
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I hope Air Canada pushes to relocate is corp HQ to Toronto. Then it won't have to play this stupid linguistic game with Carney, Miller and other Liberal politicians.
Peggy Ann@PeggyMaca
@ShaleTier7 @lamphieryeg Air Canada is not a crown corporation. It’s publicly owned. If the CEO doesn’t speak French. Who cares. Private business can make their own rules.
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No Penny, the important thing was that sympathy was expressed and that the CEO focused on the survivors and ongoing issues.
penny collenette 🇨🇦@penottawa
I guess people don’t understand that the co pilot was Antoine Forest from Québec. Sympathy should have been respectfully adressed in his language. #cdnpoli
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The Carney Liberals are looking at an activist former Liberal MPP partisan to be the next Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
She's not qualified. Here's why...
torontosun.com/opinion/column…
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This is absurd. It is Carney who should resign for slandering Air Canada CEO because he honestly felt he could not convey sympathy in French. ... Air Canada CEO criticized for English-only condolence message, PM says h... youtu.be/PAoUvPz1ra8?si… via @YouTube
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Under 18% of Canadians are bilingual.
Every federal public worker is required to be bilingual, and they want CEO’s of major corporations to be bilingual.
All I’m saying is, this is pretty much DEI in a nutshell. 😂
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