Disaster Air Canada fined for not using enough French - SPEAK ENGLISH DAMMIT.

Air Canada fined for not using enough French

A French-speaking couple say the airline violated their "linguistic rights" under Canadian law.

www.bbc.co.uk

Air Canada has been ordered to pay a French-speaking couple 21,000 Canadian dollars ($15,700; £12,900) and write them a letter of apology for violating their linguistic rights.

The couple complained that some signs on a domestic flight they took were only in English, while others gave the French version less prominence.

A judge ruled that the airline had breached Canada's bilingualism laws.

Air Canada reportedly told the court it would work to replace the signs.

Ontario couple Michel and Lynda Thibodeau filed 22 complaints against the airline in 2016.

Among them, they argued that the word "lift" was engraved on the buckles of their seatbelts in English but not in French, while French translations of words such as "exit" were in smaller characters.

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They also said the English-language boarding announcement for their Montreal-bound flight was more thorough than the French version.

"Air Canada systematically violates the linguistic rights of Francophones," the couple argued, according to the written judgment for the case.

In the ruling, the Ottawa court judge agreed that the airline had "not upheld its linguistic obligations".

Air Canada is subject to the country's Official Languages Act, which seeks to ensure that English and French are given equal status.

The airline had argued that the couple was interpreting the act too strictly, according to the court documents.

In an interview with Canadian broadcaster CBC, Mr Thibodeau said he was satisfied with the judgement but hoped to see signs on Air Canada flights improve in the future.

"Signage must be of equal quality," he said. "My expectation is that within a couple of months, we will be able to fly on any Air Canada plane, and finally signage will be in both official languages."

It is not the first time the couple have accused the airline of violating their linguistic rights. In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled that they could not sue Air Canada over a mistaken drink order on an international flight and would have to settle for an apology, the Toronto Sun reported.

Quebec needs to get their heads out their arses.

 

[Clop]

Fucking language equality?

I fucking hate Canada.

It gets worse the more you read it because it's just them complaining that the French version of everything isn't equal to its English counterpart. How fucking entitled is that country these days?

 

[Arctic Fox]

They're just ass-mad that French Canadians are the beaners of Canada. Even the Eskimos think they're retarded.

 

[Imperialist #348]

Dieu maudit le Canada.

linguistic rights? who in the fuck has the time, let alone is paid to make shit like this up?

 

[UN 474]

Fucking language equality?

I fucking hate Canada.

It gets worse the more you read it because it's just them complaining that the French version of everything isn't equal to its English counterpart. How fucking entitled is that country these days?

You think you've got it bad! I live in the UK aka Cuckland, aka clown world.

 

[CWCissey]

You think you've got it bad! I live in the UK aka Cuckland, aka clown world.

Nah it's not that bad. You at least have to ask for a different language pamphlet here rather than have another language on the signs.

Unless you're in certain areas in Wales...

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Nah it's not that bad. You at least have to ask for a different language pamphlet here rather than have another language on the signs.

Unless you're in certain areas in Wales...

How does S4C make enough money to stay on the air?

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

I wonder if any actual French will complain, or will they understand

 

[CWCissey]

How does S4C make enough money to stay on the air?

Subsidies I guess. The UN wants to protect dead and horrible languages, so they'll probably be all over S4C

 

[BW 182]

Bret Hart didn't get screwed for this

 

[ES 195]

French Canadians being entitled faggots as usual. I really wish this stupid country would stop buckling to their temper tantrums.
Si vous pouvez lire ceci, vous devriez vous tuer.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Do they complain when their shows aren't in French?

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

They say Americans are a bunch of overlitigious assholes, but only in Canada can you make a living suing people over the dumbest shit, be it bitching about "muh linguistic oppression", babysitting, or female scrotal waxes. The US should wipe this shithole country off the map.

How does S4C make enough money to stay on the air?

The sheep keep watching, so who knows?

 

[CWCissey]

The sheep keep watching, so who knows?

Quite literally!

The Welsh invented Netflix and Chill, just with livestock rather than Tinder dates.

 

[HG 400]

The most outrageous part is the quebecois thinking their bastardised mutt dialect counts as French.

 

[JULAY]

French is the first language of 21% of Canadians. Last I checked, 21% is not 50%. Why should there be linguistic equality for a language that isn't spoken by an equal number of Canadians?

Oh, right, this is Canada we're talking about... where they fervently believe in the tyranny of the minority.

 

[frozenrunner]

These kinds of Canadian language parity laws (protecting French) have existed for quite a while. I remember reading about them in the early 00's.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

In Quebec, the language police literally runs around with measuring tapes to make sure that the French part of a bilingual sign is at least twice as big as the English part, and more prominent. Also, they banned the word 'email' as being 'too English', you have to call it a 'carrielle'.

French Canadians being entitled faggots as usual. I really wish this stupid country would stop buckling to their temper tantrums.
Si vous pouvez lire ceci, vous devriez vous tuer.

I love it when you go across the St. Lawrence river from Montreal to Kahnawake, the Mohawk reservation, and everything's only in English. That's where everyone in Montreal goes to buy cigarettes, because otherwise they're $25 a pack.

 

[breadandcircuses]

Wasn't there this weird thing where a bunch of french-canadien owned shops closed because they didn't feature English?

Like... they'd rather close down then put up english signage.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

I can guarantee that both of these assholes speak impeccable English and are only doing this for the payout. I doubt that there are very many unilingual French speakers in this entire country, let alone living in Ontario.

Fuck the Francophones.