Montreal: A judge has ordered Air Canada to pay a six-figure fine to a French-speaking couple who claim the airline “violated their linguistic rights,” breaching the country’s bilingualism laws.
The federal court in Ottawa found in favor of Michel and Lynda Thibodeau, an Ontario couple who filed 22 complaints in 2016, with 14 still outstanding.
In a judgment entered Tuesday, Judge Martine St-Louis granted them CAD 21,000 (USD 15,800) — CAD 1,500 per complaint — and ordered the airline to send the couple a formal letter of apology.
