{"id":925513,"date":"2026-10-08T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925513\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:56:10","slug":"official-languages-commissioner-rebukes-air-canada-ceo-over-english-only-message-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925513\/","title":{"rendered":"Official languages commissioner rebukes Air Canada CEO over English-only message | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791478570_641_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kelly Burke waits to appear at the Standing Committee on Official Languages regarding her nomination as the Official Languages Commissioner in Ottawa, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 8, 2026 | 7:41 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada is rebuking Air Canada\u2019s outgoing CEO for a condolence message he delivered almost entirely in English after a deadly plane crash in New York earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner\u2019s annual report says her office received a large number of complaints after Michael Rousseau posted a four-minute video that only included two French words \u2014 \u201cbonjour\u201d and \u201cmerci.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Burke\u2019s report says it\u2019s important for Canadians to hear and see their leaders speaking equally in both official languages in times of crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Burke adds that bilingualism is an essential skill for any leader, whether in politics, the federal public service or the private sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelly Burke waits to appear at the Standing Committee on Official Languages regarding her nomination as the Official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-925513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}