I can confirm this bug. Though I know the priority of this bug might
appear low at first, it's actually a bug of at least moderate, if not
more, concern. Most people use their computer to type documents at some
point or other, and expect spell checking on the fly as expected
behaviour. Joe user likely wouldn't have a clue how to install a new
dictionary, or perhaps even change to the installed UK or other
dictionary in Openoffice. Given that there are likely at least a few
thousand "Joe users" floating around Canada, a few thousand people are
likely to either stop using Ubuntu or get really frustrated with the
experience. Often these are people who just want to get work done, and
had their computer setup by someone else who's now long gone.

The easy temporary fix for this is to simply have the program use the UK
dictionary. It's already installed by default, and is so similar to
Canadian English that hardly any users would notice the difference. Or
perhaps copy the UK package, point Ubuntu to the copy that would be
called Canadian in the repos, and worry later about making the
dictionary truly Canadian. Again, Canadian English and UK English are
very similarl, so changing that would be a very low priority indeed.

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[Upstream] [hardy] Open office appears to complete spell check when no spell 
check dictionary is installed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203759
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