What is the impact of a father’s actions at a child support hearing on access?

It is trite, but access is for the benefit of the children, not the parent: “… access must be crafted to preserve and promote that which is healthy and helpful in that relationship so that it may survive to achieve its purpose” (Young v. Young 1993 CanLII 34 (SCC), [1993] 4 S.C.R. 3). In my view, counsel for the mother’s description of the father’s motivations and actions is regrettably accurate: … [The father] interferes with [the mother] providing consistent, predictable, appropriate care. [The father] undoubtedly loves his children but his role in their lives is disruptive and his views on parenting are tone deaf. [The father’s] behaviour leading up to the hearing and his evidence throughout the hearing do not show a desire to nurture the children; he wants to manage them and to cut his expenses. He sees child support as an unfair windfall to [the mother]. (Closing Arguments at para. 24)