The decision came on December 23. A Quebec court has decided to suspend until February the custody rights of an unvaccinated father who is opposed on social networks to health measures for his 12-year-old child. To justify this decision, revealed by the Quebec newspaper, the court explained that it was not in the “best interests of the child to have contact with his father if he is not vaccinated, and is opposed to health measures in the current epidemiological context ”.
The family situation of his ex-wife taken into account
The judge noted that extracts from the father’s social media posts “revealed that he seems to oppose vaccines and health measures.”
The judge also took into account the mother’s family situation. She lives with her spouse and their two other children aged seven months and four years, who are not vaccinated since vaccination is only open in Canada from the age of 5. “In these circumstances, it is not in the interest of any of the three children that the father can see the 12-year-old” at the present time “, underlines the judge.
The vast majority (over 90%) of adults are vaccinated in Quebec. And the French-speaking province has decided to toughen measures against those who refuse the vaccine, in particular by soon putting in place a new tax only for the unvaccinated.