A British lawmaker accused Air Canada of holding up his colleague 'because his name is Mohammad' during a visit to Canada last week.
FILE - An Air Canada Airbus A330. An Air Canada spokesperson told Global News on Wednesday that the company has indeed reached out to apologize to Labour MP Mohammad Yasin.was necessary after a British lawmaker accused the airline of holding up his colleague “because his name is Mohammad,” Transportation Minister Pablo Rodriguez says.
Betts said he felt it was important to raise the incident in the House given “the racist and Islamophobic nature of these challenges.”
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