Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie is apologizing after being grilled about her party's failure to provide French responses to a survey conducted by the Assemblée de la francophonie de l'Ontario (AFO).
With three days until the provincial election, Crombie held a campaign stop in Ottawa-Vanier, a riding with a significant Franco-Ontarian population, where she faced questions from francophone media about the Liberals' linguistic faux-pas. In French, Crombie said the party intended to provide a translation to their original responses, but it came too late.
"This was very regrettable and very unfortunate," she said in English on Monday. "There was a problem with the French translation, and it came a little bit later."