The applicant father sought orders for decision-making, medical decision-making, and full-time Montessori pre-school attendance for their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Maeve, citing her severe neutropenia and the mother's alleged indifference and communication failures.
The respondent mother argued the motion was premature, pending a report from the Ontario Children’s Lawyer, and that there was insufficient medical evidence to support the father's claims or compel changes to the status quo.
The court dismissed the father's motion, finding he had not met the high onus to vary an interim order, as the evidence did not clearly and unequivocally establish that the current arrangements placed the child's welfare at risk.
The court also ordered case management due to the high conflict between the parties and awarded costs to the mother.
