IMHO it doesn't matter what country our staffers are appointed to - they should always have a better-then-working knowledge of the host-country language for a number of good reasons.
No sensible national government sends diplomats to a foreign-language country without proper language training. To send untrained staff (and it doesn't matter which Canadian government does it) cripples their efforts on our behalf, is an unnecessary insult to the host country and is just plain bad form all 'round. Shows us as a country that 'muddles through'. Not good.
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