“The function of a status review hearing was explained as follows by the Supreme Court of Canada in Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Metropolitan Toronto v. C.M. 1994 CanLII 83 (SCC), [1994] 2 S.C.R. 165:
“37. The examination that must be undertaken on a status review is a two-fold examination. The first one is concerned with whether the child continues to be in need of protection and, as a consequence, requires a court order for his or her protection. The second is a consideration of the best interests of the child, an important and, in the final analysis, a determining element of the decision as to the need of protection….
This flexible approach is in line with the objective of the Act, as it seeks to balance the best interests of children with the need to prevent indeterminate state intervention, while at the same time recognizing that the best interests of the child must always prevail”.
Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa v. D.C.-L,2018 ONSC 3995 (CanLII) at 284.