The Canadian Armed Forces struck a committee last year to review a new controversial directive prohibiting military chaplains from reciting prayers during mandatory ceremonies, but it has been moving at a slow pace and without defined objectives, a government document shows.
The committee was established in February “following feedback from stakeholders” and has met twice since, wrote the minister of national defence in a reply to an order paper question from Conservative Senator Don Plett.
Plett asked a number of questions about the issue in his formal request for information tabled with the government Sept. 17, such as when the committee was struck, who its members are, and what its terms of references and deadlines are….