“Courts have been clear that self-help remedies should not be condoned and must be discouraged. If a parent believes that a court order or separation agreement is no longer in a child’s best interests then their recourse is to apply to the courts. See for example, Blair v. Hamilton,2018 ONSC 7328; Ng v. Charles 2016 ONSC 2946; Phillips v. Phillips, 2021 ONSC 2480.
As the court stated in Fallis v. Decker, 2013 ONSC 5206, at paragraph 26: “Parents take unilateral action at their own peril. The court simply cannot sanction self-help in circumstances where the best interests of children may potentially have been jeopardized.”
The parent who engages in self-help tactics despite the best interest of the child will generally raise serious questions about their own parenting skills and judgment. Izyuk v. Bilousov, 2011 ONSC 6451 (CanLII); Clement v. Clement 2010 ONSC 1113 (CanLII).”