Michael Rousseau is the gift that keeps on giving for François Legault

With the Air Canada CEO walking into the language lion’s den, Legault had a perfect fall guy for a tougher Bill 96.

Quebec Premier François Legault, left, should have been jumping for joy after the firestorm caused by Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau undid all the arguments against his government’s language law, writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and photograph courtesy of CNW Group/PwC

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

November 17, 2021

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—François Legault must be thanking his lucky stars. In the midst of a coroner’s inquiry into mass deaths at a seniors’ home in Montreal, and a focus on the highest per capita death toll in Canada from COVID-19, along came Michael Rousseau to save him. The Air Canada CEO had b...

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