The Children's Aid Society sought to withdraw its child protection application after the respondent parents absconded from the jurisdiction with their five-year-old child in breach of a non-removal order.
The Society argued it no longer had jurisdiction and had declined to engage police to enforce the order.
The court dismissed the motion to withdraw, strongly criticizing the Society's failure to act on the police enforcement clause, and ordered the Society to immediately contact police to locate and apprehend the child.
