Air Canada CEO will retire this year after his English-only crash message was criticized

TorontoAP — 

Air Canada announced Monday that its CEO will retire later this year, after Michael Rousseau was criticized for his English-only message of condolence following this month’s deadly crash in New York.

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 Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Rousseau’s decision to retire is “appropriate.”

“It is essential that the next CEO of Air Canada is bilingual,” Carney said.

Carney had

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