Air Canada announced March 30 that its CEO will retire later this year, after Michael Rousseau was criticized for his English-only message of condolence following a deadly crash in New York in March.
Canada’s largest airline, based in French-speaking Quebec, said that Rousseau, 68, told the board he will leave by the end of the third quarter.
Canada is an officially bilingual nation, and

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