Airline CEO Set to Step Down After Furious Backlash to NY Crash Comments

Nick Lachance / Toronto Star via Getty ImagesAir Canada’s CEO is stepping down following an uproar over the English-only speech he gave in the wake of last week’s crash in New York. Michael Rousseau delivered the majority of his speech marking the death of two of his pilots at LaGuardia Airport in English, despite the flight originating in French-speaking Montreal, where Air Canada is based, and French and English both being Canada’s national languages.He announced Monday he would be stepping down from the position, with the airline saying in a statement that he would retire by the end of the third quarter, five years after taking the reins in 2021.