Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
Jul 20th 2011, 2:30 am
#61
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
If you don't give companies a reason to do something they find difficult and inconvenient, they probably won't do it.
If he'd made a polite complaint to the flight attendant, do you think they would have given a toss?
A non-wanker might have sued just to make the point, but not for half a mil.
Jul 20th 2011, 3:00 am
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
Air Canada should not legally be coerced into providing french or english. If people don't like it - they can use another air-line.
Jul 20th 2011, 3:17 am
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
As a former crown corp, it is also subject to the Official Languages Act in its entirety. The Act compels Air Canada not only to provide communications and service to the public in both official languages
Basically, it doesn`t run the same as Pizza Pizza.
Jul 20th 2011, 4:03 am
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
Air Canada receives corporate welfare.
As a former crown corp, it is also subject to the Official Languages Act in its entirety. The Act compels Air Canada not only to provide communications and service to the public in both official languages
Basically, it doesn`t run the same as Pizza Pizza.
As a former crown corp, it is also subject to the Official Languages Act in its entirety. The Act compels Air Canada not only to provide communications and service to the public in both official languages
Basically, it doesn`t run the same as Pizza Pizza.
I guess my view is that Air Canada should not be treated any differently to BA, or any other air-line. i.e. no subsidy, no extra regulation, and no extra protection. Otherwise, if they wanted it to be ran like a crown corp - it shouldn't have been privatized.
I realize this is pie in the sky - but if you can't opine on shit like this on the internet, where can you do it?
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Jul 20th 2011, 5:24 am
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
Oh, I know. That's the way it is - this is Canada after all.
I guess my view is that Air Canada should not be treated any differently to BA, or any other air-line. i.e. no subsidy, no extra regulation, and no extra protection. Otherwise, if they wanted it to be ran like a crown corp - it shouldn't have been privatized.
I realize this is pie in the sky - but if you can't opine on shit like this on the internet, where can you do it?
I guess my view is that Air Canada should not be treated any differently to BA, or any other air-line. i.e. no subsidy, no extra regulation, and no extra protection. Otherwise, if they wanted it to be ran like a crown corp - it shouldn't have been privatized.
I realize this is pie in the sky - but if you can't opine on shit like this on the internet, where can you do it?
Jul 20th 2011, 5:28 am
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
As previously noted, he is a wanker. But Air Canada is expected serve that wanker in French and have an obligation to do so.
If you don't give companies a reason to do something they find difficult and inconvenient, they probably won't do it.
If he'd made a polite complaint to the flight attendant, do you think they would have given a toss?
A non-wanker might have sued just to make the point, but not for half a mil.
If you don't give companies a reason to do something they find difficult and inconvenient, they probably won't do it.
If he'd made a polite complaint to the flight attendant, do you think they would have given a toss?
A non-wanker might have sued just to make the point, but not for half a mil.
But are you a native French speaker concerned about protecting their hard-won and very recent language rights?
A number of people on this forum are very concerned about credential recognition for foreign-trained professionals for example. Unfairness here, protectionism there. Expensive exams. Challenging the Red Seal. etc etc.
Most Canadians couldn't give a stuff about that issue of course, as it doesn't impact them personally.
They might just think that new immigrants who choose to come here should suck it up and do what it takes.
But then, they might not have a full appreciation of the issue or a personal experience of it.
A number of people on this forum are very concerned about credential recognition for foreign-trained professionals for example. Unfairness here, protectionism there. Expensive exams. Challenging the Red Seal. etc etc.
Most Canadians couldn't give a stuff about that issue of course, as it doesn't impact them personally.
They might just think that new immigrants who choose to come here should suck it up and do what it takes.
But then, they might not have a full appreciation of the issue or a personal experience of it.
Jul 20th 2011, 10:35 am
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
With a name like Michel Thibodeau, I imagine his first language to be French.
Jul 20th 2011, 12:19 pm
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Jul 20th 2011, 12:55 pm
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
Why? It's not an unusual name.
FWIW, the Quebeckers I have talked to about this think the bloke is a tit.
I'd love to see him go to Chelsea or Wakefield and start bitching. He'd probably end up in the Gatineau River.
FWIW, the Quebeckers I have talked to about this think the bloke is a tit.
I'd love to see him go to Chelsea or Wakefield and start bitching. He'd probably end up in the Gatineau River.
Jul 20th 2011, 1:27 pm
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
Sorry, my post was 'tongue in cheek'....
Jul 20th 2011, 3:13 pm
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
His actions in suing for cash have just added to the cost of business for the carrier, another on the list of costs to recover with fare increases.
Jul 20th 2011, 4:36 pm
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Jul 21st 2011, 3:00 am
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
What does any of that have to do with a passenger, who is Canadian, speaks French and English suing a company because they could not order a pop in French. Someone who is fluently bilingual. If all they were concerned about was their rights and not money, why sue for half a million dollars?
And yes, t is the way it is here and immigrants coming to Canada have to deal with it, the same as immigrants going to any country, even the UK.
And yes, t is the way it is here and immigrants coming to Canada have to deal with it, the same as immigrants going to any country, even the UK.
Jul 21st 2011, 3:24 am
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
there is no need for insults,i was just passing my comment on...and i speak perfectly good queens english..and by the way google quebeckian ...its a REAL word...but depending where some people are from in the uk...maybe they are too dense too realise that...
its a free speech forum and everyone is entitled to their say.
HAVE A NICE DAY.
its a free speech forum and everyone is entitled to their say.
HAVE A NICE DAY.
Jul 21st 2011, 5:24 am
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Re: Air Canada ordered to pay $12,000 to passenger
there is no need for insults,i was just passing my comment on...and i speak perfectly good queens english..and by the way google quebeckian ...its a REAL word...but depending where some people are from in the uk...maybe they are too dense too realise that...
its a free speech forum and everyone is entitled to their say.
HAVE A NICE DAY.
its a free speech forum and everyone is entitled to their say.
HAVE A NICE DAY.
