The applicant mother and respondent father separated, and the mother brought a motion to prevent the father from travelling with their 5-year-old child to Egypt, a non-Hague country.
The father brought a cross-motion seeking permission to travel with the child to Egypt to visit his seriously ill mother.
The court dismissed the father's cross-motion, finding that the proposed travel was primarily in the father's interests rather than the child's best interests.
The court noted the risks associated with travel to a non-Hague country, the Canadian government travel advisory for Egypt, the child's young age, and the father's apparent contravention of a prior court order prohibiting the application for travel documents.
