COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO
Roberts, Coroza and Pomerance JJ.A.
BETWEEN
Nanson Chalimon
Applicant (Respondent)
and
Fouaad Warda and the Public Guardian and Trustee
Respondents
Robert Lepore, for the appellants, Zaki Warda, Jargis Warda, Mariam Hanna-Warda, Zakia Kano, Lora Warda, Georgette Warda and Manna Israel
Efe Jesuorobo, for the respondents, Nanson Chalimon, Bianca Warda and George Warda
Heard and rendered orally: June 22, 2026
On appeal from the order of Justice Robert Charney of the Superior Court of Justice, dated November 17, 2025.
REASONS FOR DECISION
1We do not agree that there is any reversible error that would permit appellate intervention. The appellants contest the application judge’s treatment of the evidence and his order appointing Mr. Warda’s wife and adult daughter as his guardians of property and personal care. The appellants have not persuaded us that the application judge ignored material arguments or evidence, engaged in uneven scrutiny, or erred in his analysis, or that the appointment was not in Mr. Warda’s best interests.
2The appellants’ arguments essentially ask this court to redo the application judge’s careful consideration of the evidence and his weighing of the parties’ competing positions that he carried out expressly through the overarching lens of Mr. Warda’s best interests. That is not our role.
3The appellants’ argument that the application judge “entered into the fray” by making procedural rulings that were within his discretion to make is completely without foundation.
4The appeal is therefore dismissed. The appellants shall pay costs to the respondents in the all-inclusive amount of $5,000.
“L.B. Roberts J.A.”
“S. Coroza J.A.”
“R. Pomerance J.A.”