May 25, 2021 – Police Enforcement Clauses

“Numerous cases have confirmed that police enforcement orders should be granted sparingly and should be limited to exceptional circumstances and as a last resort when other judicial enforcement tools have been unsuccessful. Police enforcement should be ordered only when it is shown to be in the best interests of the child, after considering the risk of trauma that police enforcement might cause to the child. Police enforcement is not available “as a long-term, multiple-use, open-ended, on-demand enforcement tool”: Patterson v. Powell, 2014 ONSC 1419, at paras. 13-35; Multani v. Rana, 2020 ONSC 2433 at paras. 131-132; Medu v. Medu, 2020 ONSC 2582, at para. 22; Tessier v. Rick, 2020 ONSC 1886, at para. 17.”

         Skinner v. Skinner, 2020 ONSC 3226 (CanLII) at 28