The applicants, who were the foster parents of a two-and-a-half-year-old child, applied to the Child and Family Services Review Board to review the Children's Aid Society's decision to remove the child from their care and place him with a maternal kin family out of province.
The child had lived with the applicants since he was three days old, along with his half-sister.
The Board considered expert evidence on attachment and the potential trauma of disrupting the child's bond with the foster family.
The Board determined that it was in the child's best interests to remain with the applicants, where he could be adopted alongside his half-sister, and directed the Society not to carry out the proposed removal.