Some of France’s largest companies, including l’Oreal and BNP Paribas, use English as their principal company language. The only people who fuss regularly about using French are the Quebecois and French diplomats at the UN.
Air Canadas CEO has nothing to apologize for. The ones who should be are those two stupid pilots that literally ignored what was said by ATC and slammed into a fire truck that was sitting in the middle of the runway.
I'm more offended that he didn't start with a land acknowledgement.
There are reasons why something unimportant to you is important to others.
Foreigners (non-Canadians) bewildered by Canadian bilingualism is like non-Americans bewildered by US gun issues. Quickly forming opinions, internet-style, isn't a good look.
There's a history.
I would normally be in the "this is ridiculous" camp but I do think that the lack of a French version of the video is more appalling than normal Canadian Bi-Lingual controversies given (a) the lead pilot was from Quebec and (b) the flight took off from Montreal, so I would expect a good amount of the passangers are based in Quebec.
Now, I'm sure there would've been some hand-wringing around this even if the flight was from Calgary, but its I think fairly in this case amplified by those factors.