Since the promulgation of the apostolic constitution Spirituali militum curae by Pope John Paul II, the administration of chaplaincies was made much easier.

On 7 September 2020, Canadian Armed Forces spokesman Maj. Travis Smyth acknowledged that Capt.

Jean El-Dahdouh, a Montreal-based Maronite Order military chaplain found guilty the previous year of assault and sexual assault after a series of incidents at the upscale Nordik Spa-Nature in Chelsea, Quebec, was still a member of the Canadian military, but he was now expected to soon be released from the armed forces.

[2] On 16 November 2020, documents which the Canadian Forces sought keep sealing for 40 years were public.

Angus McRae had victims before his 1980 sex abuse conviction for children to his quarters at an Edmonton military base and gave them alcohol before sexually assaulting them.