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Canadian envoys lack security training: internal report

The report floats the idea of diplomats' spouses getting secret security clearance for safety reasons. It comes at a time when departmental spending is set to be reduced in part from mission security funding.
Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. Increased security and resilience training is needed for diplomats due to an increasingly complex security environment, an internal report from her ministry states.
Canadian diplomats abroad need more security training, even in so-called safe countries, if they are to be better prepared for the kind of attack that gripped the United Kingdom last week, according to a newly released internal report from the foreign ministry. A man slammed his SUV into pedestri...

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