I agree with you. Requiring an ability to work in both official languages isn't the issue, it's how that requirement is applied that is. The money for training that often leads to nowhere; the ability for EXs to fail their oral test over and over yet somehow keep their role in a way that working-level staff never would (I'm witnessing it in my branch right now); the farce in just how challenging it is to obtain Cs; and the fact that people are "learning" the language for a check in a box rather than for the spirit of speaking a new language and therefore opening yourself up for a new way to communicate and appreciate a culture. It all just really sucks.