The applicant mother sought permission to relocate with her seven-year-old child to Lebanon.
The mother had sole custody and was the primary caregiver, but struggled financially in Canada and wished to return to her family support system in Lebanon.
The respondent father opposed the move, fearing he would lose contact with the child.
The court applied the newly amended relocation provisions of the Divorce Act.
While acknowledging the mother's financial vulnerability and the father's history of coercive control, the court ultimately dismissed the application.
The court found that the mother's proposed parenting plan was too vague, failed to adequately facilitate the father's parenting time, and that relocating to Lebanon posed safety and security risks that were not in the child's best interests.
