May 28, 2021 – COVID Not An Excuse for Non-Compliance

“A court order must be obeyed.  A parent cannot use the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to ignore an existing order.  There should be no presumption in the COVID-19 world that in-person access will be suspended:  see, for example, Juergens v. Tackabury, 2020 ONSC 2852, at paras. 25-37; Ribeiro v. Wright, 2020 ONSC 1829, at para. 20; and Matus v. Gruszczynska, 2020 ONSC 2353, at para. 3.”

         Earnest v. Pichette, 2020 ONSC 3326 (CanLII) at 17