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The Guardian - US
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Leyland Cecco in Toronto and agencies

Lawmakers call for Air Canada chief to resign after English-only message to plane crash victims

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The president and CEO of Air Canada, Michael Rousseau, and other officials host a press conference in the lead up to the summer Olympic Games in Paris France. Photograph: Nick Lachance/Toronto Star/Getty Images

The chief executive of Air Canada has apologized for his inability to express himself in French after politicians called for his resignation for his English-only message of condolence after Sunday’s deadly crash in New York.

But lawmakers in Canada’s lone francophone province rejected the mea culpa as “too little too late” and overwhelmingly passed a motion calling for the head of Canada’s flagship carrier to step down.

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