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Eva Ludvig of the QCGN says Air Canada has had a poor record of respecting the Official Languages Act and that it’s “not surprising the problem goes all the way to the top.” During a lengthy interview with the cross-Canada CTV News Channel, she says that Michael Rousseau’s comments and lack of sensitivity, along with … Read more

Eva Ludvig of the QCGN’s Executive Committee tells Noovo during an in-depth video news report that Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau’s comments damage the reputation of Quebec’s English-speaking community and have reinforced persistent myths and long-outdated stereotypes. Lesley Chesterman says she was mortified by Rousseau’s comments. Chesterman describes Rousseau as a dinosaur. Read more

  “We could possibly have a mayor who doesn’t get that,” says Marlene Jennings, President of QCGN, on her belief that Montreal’s mayoral candidates aren’t doing enough to support English-speakers’ rights. Alyssia Rubertucci reports. Watch here

Politicians, including Liberal Federal MP Emmanuella Lambropoulos and Borough Mayor Sue Montgomery, signed an open letter denouncing Bill 96. The letter, written by the Quebec Community Groups Network and addressed to Prime Minister François Legault, denounces the reform which would deprive Anglophones of services in French. Read more

As soon as it was announced that Mike Rousseau, the new CEO of Air Canada, would be making his maiden speech to a Montreal business audience in English, he put himself on a collision course with Quebec language hawks. Even the Quebec Community Groups Network, the defenders of English-speakers’ rights, issued a caustic statement denouncing … Read more

For the Quebec Community Groups Network, no official apology can erase the “damage” caused by the CEO of Air Canada to the English-speaking community of Quebec. The president of the group, Marlene Jennings, believes that Mr. Rousseau’s words feed the “myth” that English-speaking Quebecers are a privileged minority indifferent to the French fact. Read more

There is widespread outrage across the country over comments made by Air Canada’s CEO that he doesn’t need to speak French. This, despite leading a company head-quartered in Montreal where he has lived for the past 14 years. As Raquel Fletcher reports, other leaders are now calling for Michael Rousseau’s resignation. Watch here

A public apology from the president and CEO of Air Canada Michael Rousseau Thursday over his inability to speak French has done little to calm the language tempest he sparked this week. “His attitude simply does not reflect the values of our community,” QCGN president Marlene Jennings said, noting Rousseau’s “tone deaf” comments provide ammunition … Read more

“Mr. Rousseau’s narrow-minded comment that he does not feel the need to learn French feeds the myth that English-speaking Quebecers are a privileged minority indifferent to French,” said Marlene Jennings, the president of the Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN), an umbrella group made up of English-speaking community organizations. Read more

The head of the Quebec Community Groups Network, a network that brings together English-speaking communities, also deplored Michael Rousseau’s unilingualism. “The CEO of Air Canada is a disgrace to his company, to Quebec’s English-speaking minority community, and to all Quebecers,” chirped Marlene Jennings. Read more

The QCGN has been overwhelmed with emails from English-speaking Quebecers who wish to sign the open letter to Premier François Legault telling him that English-speaking Quebecers are full and contributing members of Quebec society, QCGN President Marlene Jennings tells Aaron Rand and Natasha Hall in an interview on Montreal Now on CJAD news. Listen here