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Mark Carney rebukes Air Canada chief over English-only crash message

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Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, arrives at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on 25 March 2026. Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/AP

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has said a decision by Air Canada’s top executive to post an English-only message of condolence after a deadly crash in New York showed a “lack of judgment, a lack of compassion”.

Amid growing calls for his resignation, the airline chief’s misstep has once again revived frustrations and fears over linguistic rights protections in the province of Quebec, where French is the only official language.

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