What is the test for returning a child to his biological parent?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Windsor-Essex Children’s Aid Society v. T.C., 2016 ONCJ 488 (CanLII):

[39] In Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex v. D.(S.), Justice Harper put the proposition this way; the court must consider the risk of harm of returning the child to either parent.

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