2019 QCCQ 8162, 2019 QCCQ 8162

Protection de la jeunesse — 199565 2019 QCCQ 8162 COURT OF QUEBEC CANADA PROVINCE OF QUEBEC DISTRICT OF [...] TOWN OF [...] Youth Division No: 550-51-000078-193 DATE: December 10 th , 2019 ______________________________________________________________________ BY THE HONOURABLE JEAN-FRANÇOIS NOËL, J.Q.C. ______________________________________________________________________ A and B , paternal grandparents, domiciled and residing at [...]; Applicants and THE DIRECTOR OF YOUTH PROTECTION of Le Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux A , located at [...]; Respondent-defendant an d X, child, born on [...], 2012, unknown address; Respondent-child and C , mother, unknown address; Respondent-mother JUDGMENT ON MOTION IN INTERVENTION (sections 81, Youth Protection Act ) WARNING: The Youth Protection Act forbids the publishing or broadcasting of information allowing for a child or the child’s parents to be identified.

Any person who contravenes this provision commits an offence and is liable to a fine (sections 11.2, 11.2.1 and 135 Y.P.A.). [ 1 ] The Court is seized of a motion in intervention from Mr. A and Mrs.

B, paternal grandparents to the child X, born on [...], 2012. [ 2 ] The paternal grandparents, claiming that they play an important role in the child’s life and hold important information with regards to his situation, seek to intervene in the motion presented by the Director of Youth Protection for the revision and extension of the decision rendered by this Court on June 3 rd , 2019 in relation to the child. [ 3 ] The paternal grandparents initially sought to be granted the status of parties to the proceedings or, alternatively, to be recognised as persons of interest.

However, following discussions between all parties, they agreed to amend their motion so that they would only be seeking to be recognised as persons of interest. [ 4 ] Counsel for the Director of Youth Protection agrees with the motion as amended and so does the mother, who is represented by counsel. The child’s counsel also agrees with the motion as amended.

The father is deceased. [ 5 ] Hence, all parties agree that the grandparents are in possession of information likely to enlighten the Court and that they should therefore be recognised as persons of interest for the purpose of the hearing of the motion for revision and extension. [ 6 ] THEREFORE THE COURT : [ 7 ] GRANTS the motion; [ 8 ] RECOGNISES Mr. A and Mrs. B, paternal grandparents to the child X, as persons of interest for the purpose of the upcoming hearing of the motion for revision and extension under

section 95 Y.P.A. Signed on December 19 th , 2019.

__________________________________ JEAN-FRANÇOIS NOËL, J.Q.C. Mtre. Sophie Cadieux represented by Mtre Pascale Legault-Ouellet Counsel for the paternal grandparents, A and B Mtre. Laura Normandin Counsel for the Director of Youth Protection Mtre. Marie-Christine Fournier Counsel for the child Mtre. Manon Guitard Counsel for the mother Date of hearing: December 10 th , 2019