The Children's Aid Society brought a summary judgment motion seeking Crown wardship for twin brothers who had been in temporary care since July 2012.
The children were placed in a boarding house in the Netherlands by their mother in August 2011, and subsequently returned to Canada through Dutch child protection proceedings.
The mother failed to pay boarding house fees and was unavailable to provide care upon the children's arrival in Toronto.
The court found the children were in need of protection under section 37(2)(i) of the Child and Family Services Act and granted Crown wardship.
The children, who were approaching 18 years of age, supported the Society's motion and wished to become Crown wards to access the Independent Living Program.
The court rejected the mother's Charter rights arguments as lacking any air of reality and addressed the mother's late request for a bilingual hearing, finding it was an obstructionist tactic and that the mother lacked sufficient French language fluency to invoke section 126 of the Courts of Justice Act.
