“A preliminary procedural question is whether this court has jurisdiction over the appeal or whether the orders were interlocutory, such that the appeal is to the Divisional Court under s. 19 of the Courts of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.43 (“CJA”). This is a perennially vexing question. Although an order appointing a litigation guardian is interlocutory, the weight of the authority suggests that this court has jurisdiction over appeals from the appointment of a guardian of property: see e.g., Roelandt v. Roelandt, 2016 ONCA 858; Public Guardian and Trustee v. Gaumont, 2018 ONCA 731. On the basis of Lax v. Lax (2004), 2004 CanLII 15466 (ON CA), 70 O.R. (3d) 520 (C.A.), at para. 9, we conclude that this court has jurisdiction over the final order, such that, to the extent that the other orders under appeal are interlocutory, it can address them as well under s. 6(2) of the CJA. No party argued to the contrary.”
