SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE

ONTARIO

COURT FILE NO.: FS-22-00000102-0000

DATE: 2026-02-05

B E T W E E N:

ALSALAMAH, Mohammad

Lorna Yates, for the Applicant

Applicant

• and -

ZAJAC, Karolina

Self-Represented (Not Appearing)

Respondent

HEARD: January 26, 27, 28, 29 and February 2, 2026.

AMENDED REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

These Reasons are amended from those distributed today, at para. 71

TRIMBLE J.

[ 1 ] This four day trial involved serious questions of:

a) The parenting ability of each of the parents;

b) Which parent would have decision making power;

c) With which parent (and hence, where) the children would live; and

d) Parenting time for the parent with whom the children did not live.

MARITAL FACTS

[ 2 ] The following are the essential facts:

a) Mohammad was born on May 31, 1986 and is 39 years old. He is a Saudi Arabian and Canadian citizen;

b) Karolina was born on May 16, 1991 and is 34 years old. She is a Polish and Canadian citizen;

c) Mohammad is a a pediatric allergist and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;

d) The Saudi Arabian government paid for Mohammad’s medical education and training in Canada from 2011 to 2017. In return, Mohammad would return to Saudi Arabia to work. Mohammad is required to work in Saudi Arabia for one year for each year he was sponsored. He has re married to a Saudi Arabian citizen and has no plans to return to Canada to live;

e) Karolina is a stay at home parent. She has an undergraduate degree and a college diploma;

f) The parties met in the United Kingdom while they were studying.

g) The parties had a religious marriage ceremony at the Saudi Embassy in Poland on January 28, 2010;

h) The parties lived in Saudi Arabia in 2010 then moved to Canada in March, 2011 so Mohammad could pursue his medical studies;

i) The parties have three children: F, born April 29, 2013, A, born July 4, 2016, and D, born September 17, 2018. All three reside with Mother in Mississauga and attend School there. All three children are in good health and are good students but they have missed significant school under Karolina’s care;

j) The children, like their parents, are Muslim;

k) Mohammad was required to return to Saudi Arabia in 2019 because his leave extension expired in December 2018.

l) The family returned to Saudi Arabia 2019, Mohammad in May and Karolina and the children in September. Mohammad travelled back and forth between Saudia Arabia and Canada from May to September 2019;

m) In October 2021, Karolina wanted to return to Canada for a while. The Family returned to Canada on October 10, 2021. Mohammad, once the family was settled, returned to his position at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences in Riyadh in November 2021;

n) On May 2, 2022, Karolina told Mohammad that she wanted to separate from him. Karolina gave Mohammad a traditional Islamic divorce by saying “you are divorced, you are divorced, you are divorced” to him; and

o) Since then, Mohammad has returned to Canada for 2 to 3 weeks each three months, to spend that time with the children. Mother has never voluntarily permitted Father to see the children. Each time (except in Janujry 2026), Mohammad has had to obtain an order or at least bring a motion in order to spend parenting time with the children. On 6 January 2026, McGee, J. ordered that Father have parenting time both before and after this trial, and ordered police enforcement. On 19 January, when Father appeared at the children’s school to pick them up under the 6 January 2026 order, Mother would not permit Father to pick up the children from school. Father invoked the police enforcement provision and police appeared at Mother’s residence to effect the transfer of the children to Father’s care.

MOTHER’S PARTICIPATION IN THE TRIAL

[ 3 ] The trial was called on 26 January. The Court heard evidence from the Applicant Father for four days. The Respondent Mother did not participate.

[ 4 ] On the morning of the trial, the Registrar called Mother twice between 9:30 and 10 am and left voice mails asking if Mother intended to come. There was no return call.

[ 5 ] Father’s counsel tried to speak to and then emailed Mother the day before and the morning of the trial. Mother returned Counsel’s email at about 10:40 on the first day of trial indicating she would not appear at the trial.

[ 6 ] At my request, the Father’s counsel send Mother the daily Endorsement, an updated Exhibit List, and some exhibits that might have been new to Mother. Some of Mother’s email responses to Father’s counsel were entered into evidence as Exhibits 3, 6, 8, 54-56, and 72. Those emails and her opening statement (Ex. 1) and closing statement (Ex. 70) indicate, unequivocally, that she did not wish to participate. Mother said that I should accept as her evidence and argument, her opening and closing statements, and her various filings throughout this file’s life.

[ 7 ] On 2 February, Mother arrived at the Courthouse, gave evidence, was cross examined, and made argument. She confirmed that, as she told McGee, J., she did not attend because she refused to cross examine any of Father’s witnesses, whose evidence she considered lies.

THE NEED FOR AN URGENT DECISION

[ 8 ] By her testimony, her conduct at the beginning of Father’s parenting time, her emails entered as Exhibits in this trial, and in her opening and closing statements, Mother made her position clear: Father and the children should have no contact.

[ 9 ] These children have had enough uncertainty, enough exposure to adult conflict, and enough emotional harm and turmoil by exposure to that conflict. They need an answer to the questions posed as soon as possible. Accordingly, I release these reasons in a summary form. In doing so, I have comprehensively reviewed the material facts and admissible evidence, and I have fully considered the parties’ submissions in reaching my decision regardless of whether I have reviewed in these reasons each material fact, exhibit or submission.

DECISION MAKING

[ 10 ] I find that Mother cannot support any contact between the children and Father, and unless she has the psychiatric help discussed below, Mother will never foster a loving relationship between Father and the children. Indeed, her actions and statements are aimed at undermining that relationship by demonizing Father. Consider the following examples of her actions:

a) To the children, Mother refers to Father as a terrorist, abuser, and murderer. There is no evidence to support these allegations.

b) She will not acknowledge that he is the children’s father.

c) She will not refer to him by name. She refers to him as “the other party”.

d) She has cut the children off from all of his family and her own family.

e) She will not communicate with Father,

f) She will not allow Father to see the children without a Court order, a motion being brought for such an order (and the expense Father incurred in both), or as of 6 January 2026, police enforcement.

[ 11 ] I also find that Mother’s decision making is not in the best interests of the children. Consider the following examples:

a) She has cut the children off from all of his family and her own family.

b) She does not allow the children to be involved non-school related extra curricular activities. While some of this is economic, she does not demand Father pay for s. 7 expenses, although he has volunteered to pay for such reasonable expenses.

c) She has isolated the children from their community in Mississauga. Once the children return from school they are not permitted to leave their basement apartment.

d) She sends the children to school, and to Father during his parenting time, unwashed, and wearing clothes that are both too small, dirty, and with rips and tears.

e) On 14 July 2024, F reported to 911 that Mother had been lying on the kitchen floor for two days, unresponsive, mumbling in Polish. The children were fearful of reporting the matter. At the hospital, Mother denied that she was ill, declined any psychiatric assistance, denied that there was any issue, and reported that the eldest child was exaggerating. Won 24 August, F called 911 again to report that Mother was in the same state. Mother was taken to hospital where took the same positions. Police recorded that the children reported that Mother had not cooked for them or shopped for food since the beginning of summer and that they had eaten meals that were ordered in. During the two periods of Mother’s incapacity, the eldest child made breakfast for the other children and ordered in for other meals.

f) She both minimizes or exaggerates concerns. Re minimization, see the events of the summer of 2024. Re exaggeration, she reports to the Psychologist and s. 30 Assessor that after returning from Father’s care the eldest child was having suicidal thoughts. In fact, the eldest child hyperbolized, only once, that he might as well be dead when he found out that his debit account did not have enough money on it to buy a computer game he wanted.

g) She has an inability to admit that there may be issues with her parenting. She describes her parenting skills in nothing but superlatives, and Fathers in nothing by pajoratives.

h) She ceased taking the children to the Mosque that they attended during the marriage.

i) Mother has submitted no parenting plan in this action other that Father will have no contact with the children.

[ 12 ] I order that Father shall have the sole responsibility for decision-making for the couple’s children: F, born April 29, 2013, A, born July 4, 2016, and D, born September 17, 2018. Father shall have primary care and control of the children and make all decisions with respect to them. Except as provided herein, Mother shall have no decision making responsibility.

[ 13 ] I make this decision having considered all the evidence, the relevant considerations under s. 24 of the children ’s Law Reform Act, and the jurisprudence thereunder.

[ 14 ] Father’s decisions involving the children shall abide by the following guidelines:

a. Major Non-Emergency Health Care:

[ 15 ] Father shall select the children’s general medical practitioner, pediatrician and dentist in Saudi Arabia. Further, Father shall select a counsellor or other professional to provide mental health supports (counselling/therapy) for the children, especially as they transition to life in Saudi Arabia.

[ 16 ] Father shall provide to Mother the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all physicians, dentists, or other professionals providing care to the children. Mother shall have the right to obtain from those professionals records and information relating to the children or any of them.

[ 17 ] Father shall notify mother immediately of a child’s or children’s emergency visit to a physician, specialist and/or hospital and provide information about diagnoses, prognoses, and treatment.

[ 18 ] The parents may request any relevant records/information from the children’s physicians or counsellors. Neither parent shall expect the other parent to provide such records or updates.

b. Major Educational Decisions:

[ 19 ] The children shall attend Reigate Grammar School Riyadh, Qurtuba Campus. F and D can be enrolled immediately, and shall be. A will be placed on a waiting list. Until his enrollment is confirmed, Father shall arrange for private tutoring for A to keep him current in school curriculum so that he suffers no disadvantage when his is accepted.

[ 20 ] Each parent shall have the right to request from the school, daycare, or tutor that he or she be provided with all notices, report cards, progress reports relating to any of the children.

c. Major Religious Decisions:

[ 21 ] The children shall continue to be raised in the Muslim faith.

[ 22 ] Father shall educate and expose the children to religious instruction in keeping with the tradition in place prior to their separation and consistent with the children’s best interests.

d. Extracurricular Activities:

[ 23 ] The children would benefit from being involved in extra-curricular activities, summer camp programs, or other similar activities in the community to assist with their socialization and integration into school and life in Saudi Arabia and to help them build a social network. Father may schedule activities during Mother’s scheduled video calls with the children only with her consent.

[ 24 ] Father should notify Mother of any child’s enrolment in any extra curricular activity (whether associated with or independent of school) and provide her with any schedule for that activity. Father shall provide Mother with any video links associated with the child’s participation in the activity so that she may observe them.

RESIDENCE/RELOCATION

[ 25 ] I order that the children shall live with Father. This requires the children to relocate to Saudi Arabia. I make this decision because it is in their best interests, having considered all the evidence, the relevant considerations under s. 39.4(3) of the children ’s Law Reform Act, and the jurisprudence thereunder.

[ 26 ] According to McGee, J.’s interim order of 6 July 2026, Father has the children in his care from Friday, 30 January 2026 pick up at school, to 13 February 2026 drop off at school. By this Endorsement, McGee, J.’s temporary order is amended to delete the drop off at school on 13 February 2026.

[ 27 ] Father has two weeks to arrange to relocate the children to Saudi Arabia. Mother shall cooperate. If the arrangements cannot be made to relocate the children to Saudi Arabia by 13 February 2026, I may be spoken to with respects to terms about the transition.

PARENTING TIME

[ 28 ] Mother’s parenting time with the children is of vital importance to the children and to Ms. Zajac. She loves the children and they love her. Mother testified that if I order that Father have decision making powers and that the children live with him, she will begin the process of relocating to Saudi Arabia. Accordingly, I approach the issue of Mother’s parenting time based on this possibility.

[ 29 ] So long as Mother resides in Canada and the children reside in Saudi Arabia, Mother’s parenting time shall be:

a) By video call, every other night, beginning Friday 6 February 2026, at 8:00 p.m. local time in Ontario if the children are present in Ontario, or 8:00 p.m., local time in Riyadh, if the children are there. The children shall have to right to video or telephone call their mother at their discretion. The children will be afforded privacy for these calls.

b) For the Summer holiday, from the last Sunday in June of each year to the second Sunday in August of each year;

c) For first semester holidays in November of each year;

d) For mid-term holidays in January or February of each year;

e) For Eid al-Fitr holidays in March of each year; and

f) Such further and other times as the parties may agree from time to time.

[ 30 ] These parenting times may be spent in Saudi Arabia or in Ontario, at Mother’s option.

[ 31 ] Where Mother spends any of her parenting time in Canada, immediately upon the children’s arrival in Canada Mother shall surrender the children’s passports to a person in Ontario Father designates. That person shall surrender the passports to Mother at the time of the children’s return to Saudi Arabia.

[ 32 ] For the first two years commencing the date of the pronouncement of these Reasons, Father shall pay the round trip cost of transporting the children to Ontario for parenting time with Mother. Thereafter, the children’s travel cost for any of Mother’s parenting time in Canada shall be borne equally between the parties. Each party shall pay for the round trip travel costs for the three children every other trip taken, with Father paying for the first trip.

[ 33 ] If Mother resides in Saudi Arabia, Mothers parenting time will be:

a) Standard Weekly Parenting Time : every other weekend from Thursday after school until Sunday, and every Wednesday after school overnight until school start on Thursday morning;

b) First-semester vacation: the children shall reside with Father in even-numbered years and with Mother in odd numbered years, from after school as the school break starts until their return to school following the break;

c) Mid-Term holidays: the children shall reside Mother in even-numbered years and with Father in odd numbered years, from after school before the break until their return to school following the break;

d) Second-semester vacation : the children shall reside Mother in even-numbered years and with Father in odd numbered years, from after school as the school break starts until their return to school following the break;

e) Eid al-Fitr holidays: the children shall reside with the parents equally. IN even numbered years the children shall be with Mother for the first half of this break and with Father for second half, and in odd-numbered years with Father for the first half of this break and with mother for the second. Pick up will be from the end of school as the school break starts and return will be to school following the break;

f) Mother's Day: if the children are not already with Mother on this weekend, the children shall reside with Mother on Mother's Day weekend, from Saturday at 7:00p.m. until their return to school on Monday;

g) Eid al-Adha holidays: the children shall reside with the parents equally. IN even numbered years the children will be with Father for the first half of this break and with Mother for the second half. IN odd numbered years the children will be with Mother for the first half of this break and with Father for the second half. Pick up will be from the end of school as the school break starts and drop off will be to the school the first day following the end of the break;

h) Father's Day: if the children are not already with Father on this weekend, the children shall reside with Father on Father's Day weekend, from Saturday at 7:00p.m. until their return to school on Monday;

i) Summer Vacation: the children shall reside with each parent for no less than three (3) uninterrupted, consecutive weeks during the children’s summer school vacation. Father and the Mother shall advise each other by April 1st of their chosen weeks, with the Father to have first choice in odd-numbered years and the Mother in even-numbered years;

j) The children’s Birthday : the parents shall both have access to the children on their respective birthdays, but the children shall reside with Mother or Father according to the usual parenting schedule.

k) Extra Curricular events : the parents shall obtain schedules and other necessary information directly from the instructor and/or coaches of the activities, and iii. the parents may attend special events at extracurricular activities such as games, concerts, recitals, shows or performances.

INFORMATION

[ 34 ] Mother may make inquiries and be given information by the children’s teachers, school officials, doctors, dentists, health care providers, summer camp counsellors or others involved the children. Mother may obtain her own school calendar from the school and request copies of the school notices directly.

[ 35 ] Subject to my order, below, about communication between Father and Mother, Father will keep Mother apprised of all significant events involving the children. Father will communicate to Mother information about all urgent or important matters as soon as possible, including medical advice received, report cards, and major educational issues. Father shall also provide a biweekly status report to mother.

DOCUMENTS

[ 36 ] The Father shall be the custodian of the children’s government issued documents (both Saudi and Canadian). These documents include, but are not limited to passports, birth certificates, SIN cards, OHIP/Health cards, and immunisation records.

[ 37 ] By 4:00 p.m., 6 February 2026, Mother will surrender to Father’s lawyer’s office all government issued documents, whether valid or expired.

[ 38 ] Father shall have the sole and exclusive right to obtain passports or other government issued documents for the children. He may only obtain such documents from a government in Saudi Arabia or Canada. Mother is restrained from obtaining any government issued documents for any of the children.

[ 39 ] Father shall provide Mother with notarial copies of all current, valid government issued documents, and all such documents he receives in the future, forthwith after obtaining them.

[ 40 ] To facilitate the children’s relocation to Saudi Arabia, if the children’s Canadian passports are expired, Father shall apply immediately for new passports for the children on an expedited basis. The Federal Government is urged to expedite the issuance of the new passports.

TRAVEL

[ 41 ] Father may travel with the children anywhere in the world, without Mother’s consent. Father may only travel with the children if it does not interfere with Mother’s parenting time, unless she consents to such travel during her parenting time, in writing.

[ 42 ] If Mother is living in Saudi Arabia, she may travel outside of metropolitan Riyadh only with Father’s written consent, having provided Father with the information below.

[ 43 ] As a precondition to travel, the travelling parent will, not less than 14 days before beginning the travel, provide the other parent with an itinerary of the proposed travel including the name of any flight carrier, the date and flight number, and departure and arrival times, accommodation details, including address and telephone numbers (land and mobile), and how to contact the children during the trip. The children shall contact other parent within three (3) hours of arrival, if possible.

[ 44 ] The travelling parent shall be responsible to have the children contact the other parent during the travel period, as set out in this Endorsement and any order arising from it.

[ 45 ] Travel during the school year period should not exceed removal of the child or children from school for more than a five-day period.

MOTHER’S RETURN OF THE CHILDREN

[ 46 ] Mother shall be obliged to return the children to the Father’s care at the end of her parenting time.

[ 47 ] Father shall retain the children’s official documents (including passports, birth certificates and citizenship papers) while the children are in the Mother’s care. The children’s health cards, to the extent that they exist upon their residence in Saudi, shall travel with them.

[ 48 ] If Mother is living in Ontario, but exercising her parenting time in Saudi Arabia, she will deposit her passport with Father’s lawyer at the beginning of her parenting tim. It shall be returned to her when she returns the children to Father’s care at the end of her parenting time.

[ 49 ] If Mother does not return the children to the Father’s care as set out in this Order, the following consequences shall apply:

a. Father may bring a motion to the Court seeking a change in any Final Order incorporating the terms of this Order;

b. The Mother’s parenting time shall be suspended; and

c. The Court may make any other order as it deems just in the event of a breach.

CHANGE OF RESIDENCE

[ 50 ] If Father changes residence from his current residence in Saudi Arabia, he shall give his new address and telephone number to Mother as soon as the information is available.

PROFESSIONAL ASSESSMENT AND COUNSELLING

a) Mother

[ 51 ] The Psychologist and the s. 30 Assessor both testified that they were very concerned that Mother had psychiatric issues which might impede her ability to co parent with Father. Both recommended that Mother have a full psychiatric evaluation focussing on her parenting and coparenting ability, and that she follow any recommendations made by the psychiatrist following that assessment. The Psychologist, the s. 30 Assessor, and Mother’s conduct in this Courtroom while giving evidence and making argument suggest that she has mental health concerns that impede her ability to co-parent the children with Father.

[ 52 ] While I make no order in this respect, I observe that any future expansion of Mother’s parenting time would be greatly assisted by and may depend on adoption of the recommendations of the psychiatrist following on a complete psychiatric assessment as recommended by the Psychologists and s. 30 Assessor in this trial. Their reports, notes, and records produced in this action, and the documents that were placed before the Psychologist and s. 30 Assessor should also be provided to the Psychiatrist assessing Mother.

b) The children

[ 53 ] The children have lived a secluded life with Mother. They have had social interaction with other children only at school. They have not participated in extra curricular activities outside of school. It appears that Mother has few friends.

[ 54 ] The children will start a new life, in a new country, in a new school, with a new language. They would benefit from counselling to assist them in adjusting to these changes.

ENFORCEMENT

a. Mirror Order in Saudi Arabia

[ 55 ] The new children’s habitual and ordinary residence shall be Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

[ 56 ] The Father shall obtain a mirroring Order in Saudi Arabia incorporating the terms of this Order at his own expense. If the Saudi Court does not grant an order mirroring any Ontario Order or does not include any provision of any Ontario Order, Father shall advise this Court and provide a copy of the Saudi mirroring Order to this Court. A further attendance may be necessary.

[ 57 ] Father intends to be bound by the Ontario order, regardless, and has agreed to post security, referred to below.

[ 58 ] The Superior Court in Ontario shall retain jurisdiction over any enforcement issues so long as one of the parents is living in Ontario and the children are in Ontario when enforcement is requested.

b. Police Enforcement

[ 59 ] When the children are in Ontario, I order that pursuant to s. 36 of the Children’s Law Reform Act , the police force having jurisdiction in any area where it appears that the children may be found, shall forthwith locate, apprehend and deliver the children to Father if so requested.

[ 60 ] Pursuant to s. 36(4) of the children ’s Law Reform Act , the police service or agency named in the Order and any other police service having jurisdiction where the child(ren) may be found, shall do all things reasonably able to be done to locate, apprehend and deliver the child(ren) in accordance with this Order.

[ 61 ] Pursuant to s. 36(5) of the children ’s Law Reform Act , for the purpose of locating and apprehending the child(ren) in accordance with this Order, any member of the police service/agency named in this Order and any member of any other police service having jurisdiction where the child(ren) may be found may enter and search any place where he or she has reasonable and probable grounds for believing that the child(ren) may be, with such assistance and such force as are reasonable in the circumstances.

[ 62 ] Pursuant to s. 36(6) of the children ’s Law Reform Act , an entry or a search referred to in this Order, shall be made between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., of the time applying at the search location.

[ 63 ] These police enforcement provisions shall not expire until D reaches the age of 13 on September 17, 2031.

[ 64 ] This Order shall be delivered forthwith by the Applicant to the Chief of Police/Commissioner or their designate of the police service/agency named in this Order and any other police service having jurisdiction where the children, as identified in this Order, may be.

[ 65 ] The enforcement provisions in this Order are made with leave to any police service/agency with an interest in the motion/application, to bring this matter back to Court for further direction and submissions, if required.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PARENTS

[ 66 ] The parents shall use www.ourfamilywizard.com for all communication. Telephone, WhatsApp and text messages should be used only in emergencies.

FATHER SHALL POST SECURITY

[ 67 ] Saudi Arabia is not a signatory to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction . Further, there is no certainty that Saudi Arabia will issue an order mirroring all aspects of the final order in this case.

[ 68 ] Since Father is allowed to relocate the children to a non-Hague country, so long as Mother lives in Ontario and exercises her parenting time with the children in Ontario, as security for Father’s performance of his obligations under this or any subsequent or amended order in respect of the children, Father shall deposit with the Accountant of the Superior Court for Ontario the sum of CAD$25,000.00.This security shall remain paid into Court, bearing interest to the credit of the Application until D is 16 years of age or an Ontario Court orders otherwise.

[ 69 ] If Father does not facilitate Mother’s in-person parenting time as set out in any Order, the following consequences shall apply:

a) The Mother may bring a motion to the Court in Ontario seeking a change in any Final Order incorporating the terms of this Order;

b) On a finding of a breach by Father, the judge hearing the change may award Mother a payment of up to $10,000.00 for the first breach and up to $5,000.00 for each additional breach, up to a total of CAD$25,000.00; and

c) The Court may make any other order as it deems just in the event of a breach.

[ 70 ] If Mother relocates to Saudi Arabia, Father may apply to the Ontario Courts to discharge the security he has posted.

CHILD SUPPORT

[ 71 ] The children are entitled to child support from Mother while they are in Father’s care. At this time, I make no order that Mother pay child support pursuant to section 10(2)(b) of the Federal Child Support Guidelines, which provides that a court may award an amount of child support that is different from the table amount if the other parent has unusually high expenses in relation to exercising parenting time with a child. I make this order as Mother is not working and because of the extraordinary costs of maintaining Mother’s parenting time. The issue can be revisited if and when Mother becomes employed.

SECTION 7 EXPENSES

[ 72 ] Father shall pay for all the children’s special and/or extraordinary expenses without contribution by Mother for as long as the children reside primarily with him.

SPOUSAL SUPPORT

[ 73 ] Mother abandoned her claim to spousal support as noted by McGee, J. No order shall issue.

OTHER CLAIMS

[ 74 ] The claims for spousal support, retroactive child and spousal support up to the date of this order, and all property and equalization claims are dismissed.

COSTS

[ 75 ] I shall address the question of who pays whom costs, and in what amount based on written submissions, limited to 5 double spaced, typewritten pages (excluding Bills of Costs and Offers to Settle). Father’s submissions shall be served and filed by 4 pm, 30 April 2026 and Mother’s by 4 pm, 31 May 2026. There will be no right of reply.

[ 76 ] I remain seized of this matter until I declare otherwise.

FORMAL ORDER

[ 77 ] Drafting a formal Final Order following these Reasons and having the Order issued and entered, will take time. Implementing the decisions listed in these reasons must be immediate.

[ 78 ] Accordingly, I order that these Reasons, themselves, shall be sufficient for all enforcement purposes, as if it were an issued and entered order, until such time as the order is prepared, issued, and entered.

[ 79 ] Without limiting the generality of the foregoing statement, these Reasons shall be sufficient to obtain government documents (including passports) for the children, for notifying schools or any other person or organization of the orders and decisions made in these Reasons.

[ 80 ] Father’s counsel shall prepare the formal Final Order for my signature. I dispense with Ms. Zajac’s approval of the formal Final Order as to form and content.

PUBLIC DISCLOSURE

[ 81 ] I have used the children’s names in these Reasons. To protect the identity of the children I will not send these Reasons to be published. Further, to protect the identity of the children, I order that neither Mother or Father, or anyone on their behalf, shall disseminate these reasons in any way, except to the limited extend as may be required to give effect to the orders and decisions made in these Reasons. The children’s names and birthdates may be used if necessary in the formal Final Order arising from these Reasons.

[ 82 ] I will send to publishing a version of these reasons in which the children are referred to by their first initials only, i.e., as F, A, and D.

Trimble, J.

Released: February 5, 2026

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COURT FILE NO.: FS-22-00000102-0000

DATE: 2026-02-05

ONTARIO SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE B E T W E E N: ALSALAMAH, Mohammad Lorna Yates, for the Applicant - and – ZAJAC, Karolina Self-Represented AMENDED REASONS FOR JUDGMENT These Reasons are amended from those distributed today, at para. 71 Trimble J.

Released: February 5, 2026