The applicant father and respondent mother, who share joint decision-making responsibility for their child, disagreed on which school the child should attend for junior kindergarten.
The father sought enrollment in F.H. Clergue French Immersion Public School, while the mother sought enrollment in Grandview Public School (English).
The court applied the best interests of the child standard under the Children's Law Reform Act and determined that enrollment in French Immersion was in the child's best interests, given the benefits of bilingualism, the child's young age and first school experience, the ease of transferring out if needed, and the father's commitment to support the child's French language development.
