2026年3月30日 / 美国东部时间下午12:07 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
加拿大航空首席执行官迈克尔·卢梭表示，他将于今年晚些时候退休，此前他因在本月纽约致命空难后仅用英语发布悼词而遭到批评。
这家总部位于法语区魁北克的加拿大最大航空公司表示，现年68岁的卢梭已告知董事会，他将于9月底前离职。根据法律要求，加拿大航空必须提供英语和法语双语航班服务，该公司表示将寻找一名“能够用法语沟通”的新任首席执行官。
此次空难发生于3月22日，加拿大航空爵士航空的一架从蒙特利尔起飞的航班抵达纽约拉瓜迪亚机场时，在跑道上与一辆消防救援车辆相撞。机上两名飞行员遇难，他们分别是说法语的魁北克人安托万·福雷斯特，以及多伦多圣劳伦斯理工学院的毕业生麦肯齐·冈瑟。
空难发生后，卢梭仅用英语发布了悼词视频，仅附带法语字幕。
加拿大是官方双语国家，总理马克·卡尼曾表示，仅使用英语发布悼词体现出缺乏同理心和判断力。魁北克省省长及其他人士呼吁这位航空公司高管辞职，而官方语言专员办公室已收到数百起相关投诉。
加拿大交通部长史蒂文·麦金农在社交媒体帖子中对卢梭表示感谢，并表示政府将继续与加拿大航空密切合作，确保其“为所有加拿大人提供安全、可靠、负担得起的双语服务”。
魁北克省省长弗朗索瓦·勒戈指出，卢梭在2021年2月被任命为该航空公司总裁时，曾承诺要学习法语。在担任加拿大航空首席执行官之前，卢梭曾担任该航空公司副首席执行官兼首席财务官。
自18世纪60年代英国完成对当时称为新法兰西的地区的接管以来，魁北克的身份认同问题一直存在争议。目前魁北克约80%的人口为法语使用者。
Air Canada CEO to step down after backlash over his English-only crash message
March 30, 2026 / 12:07 PM EDT / CBS/AP
Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau said he will retire later this year, days after drawing criticism for an English-only condolence message following this month’s deadly crash in New York.
Canada’s largest airline, based in French-speaking Quebec, said Rousseau, who is 68, told the board he will leave by the end of September. Air Canada, which is required by law to offer flight service in both English and French, said it will search for a new CEO who has “the ability to communicate in French.”
The crash occurred on March 22, when an Air Canada Jazz flight from Montreal arrived at New York’s LaGuardia Airport and collided with a fire-and-rescue vehicle on a runway. The plane’s two pilots were killed in the crash. They were Antoine Forest, a French-speaking Quebecer, and Mackenzie Gunther, a graduate of Toronto’s Seneca Polytechnic.
After the crash, Rousseau delivered his condolence video message in English, with French subtitles.
Canada is an officially bilingual nation, and Prime Minister Mark Carney had said the English-only message showed a lack of compassion and judgment. Quebec’s premier and others called on the airline executive to resign, while the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages has received hundreds of complaints.
Steven MacKinnon, Canada’s transport minister, thanked Rousseau in a social media post and said the government will continue to work closely with Air Canada to ensure it “provides safe, reliable, affordable and bilingual service to all Canadians.”
Quebec Premier François Legault noted that when Rousseau was appointed president of the airline in February 2021, he promised to learn French. Before serving as Air Canada’s CEO, Rousseau had worked as the airline’s deputy CEO and chief financial officer.
Quebec’s identity has been contentious since the 1760s, when the British completed their takeover of what was then called New France. Quebec is about 80% French-speaking.
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