{"id":90477,"date":"2017-02-20T21:49:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90477"},"modified":"2017-02-20T21:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T02:49:23","slug":"trudeau-sends-letter-apologizing-for-responding-in-french-to-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/20\/trudeau-sends-letter-apologizing-for-responding-in-french-to-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau sends letter apologizing for responding in French to English"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84415\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/8619694332_e851fb7378_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84415\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/8619694332_e851fb7378_h.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is formally apologizing after insisting on answering English questions in French during a Quebec tour last January. (Photo: John McCallum\/ Flickr)\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/8619694332_e851fb7378_h.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/8619694332_e851fb7378_h-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/8619694332_e851fb7378_h-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/8619694332_e851fb7378_h-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is formally apologizing after insisting on answering English questions in French during a Quebec tour last January. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/94721844@N08\/8619694332\/in\/photolist-e8GbPw-e8Gcq5-e8GbFG-e8AvUF-e8Ay9B-e8GcmN-aiukif-twpDf-e8G1Mo-gk5P8R-6KdHDA-6K9B4c-6KdJVY-6KdGpW-6K9A6n-6K9AQX-6K9AA4-6KdJdN-6K9Bj4-6KdJBS-6K9zR6-6K9z1V-6K9wrg-6K9xG6-p7vShe-6KdFvC-6KdEzh-6KdCEW-6KdFGb-6K9wYp-6KdDUb-6KdEVf-6KdDcj-6K9xjz-6K9y1Z-6K9wMV-6K9ymk-6KdFiN-6KdEfs-o1CG3T-gkihLd-gkiiPW-gkXmtA-gkiizC-gkhW9u-hMStmm-6K9w7M-6KdBXb-6K9wh4-xj8Z7g\">John McCallum\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MONTREAL\u2014Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is formally apologizing after insisting on answering English questions in French during a Quebec tour last January.<\/p>\n<p>A Montreal-based anglophone advocacy group published a letter on its website today from Trudeau in which he expresses his sincere regrets.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages received a series of complaints regarding Trudeau&#8217;s decision to respond in French to questions posed to him in English during a town hall meeting in Sherbrooke.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau says he recognizes he should have answered questions in the language they were asked and is promising to do so in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister adds that anglophone Liberal MPs from Quebec approached him about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec Community Groups Network, which received the prime minister&#8217;s letter, says Trudeau&#8217;s response was gracious. The organization did not file any official complaints with the languages commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL\u2014Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is formally apologizing after insisting on answering English questions in French during a Quebec tour last &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[15504,3070],"class_list":["post-90477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-anglophone-advocacy-group","tag-justin-trudeau","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}