{"id":290048,"date":"2019-09-02T07:25:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T07:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290048"},"modified":"2019-09-02T07:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T07:25:53","slug":"air-canada-ordered-to-pay-6-figure-fine-for-violating-couples-language-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-canada-ordered-to-pay-6-figure-fine-for-violating-couples-language-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada ordered to pay 6-figure fine for violating couple\u2019s &#8216;language rights&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal: A judge has ordered Air Canada to pay a six-figure fine to a French-speaking couple who claim the airline &#8220;violated their linguistic rights,&#8221; breaching the country&#8217;s bilingualism laws.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In a judgment entered Tuesday, Judge Martine St-Louis granted them CAD 21,000 (USD 15,800) \u2014 CAD 1,500 per complaint \u2014 and ordered the airline to send the couple a formal letter of apology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal: A judge has ordered Air Canada to pay a six-figure fine to a French-speaking couple who claim the airline &#8220;violated their linguistic rights,&#8221; breaching the country&#8217;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) \u2014 CAD 1,500 per complaint \u2014 and ordered the airline to send the couple a formal letter of apology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}