Quebec judge suspends visitation rights of unvaccinated man with child | The Canadian News

A Quebec Superior Court judge has temporarily suspended a father’s right to see his son based on evidence that the man is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and appears to oppose the government’s anti-pandemic health measures.

In a decision published Dec. 23, Judge J. Sebastien Vaillancourt wrote that continued visitation was not in the best interest of the 12-year-old boy or the boy’s two younger half-siblings, given the state of the pandemic.

The decision states that the man told the court that despite his “reservations” about vaccination, he followed the existing rules and rarely left the house.

However, Vaillancourt wrote that posts on the father’s Facebook page suggested he was a conspiracy theorist, leading the court to doubt that he was following health rules as he claimed.

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The judge noted that while it is normally best for a child to see their father, the rapid rise of the Omicron variant and the fact that the child lives with half-siblings too young to be vaccinated meant that was no longer the case. .

Vaillancourt wrote that the suspension of visiting rights should be as short as possible and can be reversed once the epidemiological situation changes or the father decides to get vaccinated and adjust to sanitary measures.

He set another hearing for February 8.

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