In a child protection status review involving two children in society care, the court found the children remained in need of protection because of the mother's unresolved mental health concerns, ongoing conflictual behaviour, and lack of insight into the impact of that behaviour on the children.
Although the society and the mother sought a supervision order returning the children to the mother in another province, the court held that plan did not adequately protect the children's emotional wellbeing.
The court gave significant weight to the children's consistent wishes not to return, while grounding the analysis in the lived basis for those wishes rather than treating preference as determinative.
Extended care was ordered, with limited supervised virtual access preserved to maintain cultural, linguistic, and familial connection without undermining the children's stability and future permanency options.
