Law360 Canada ( May 5, 2022, 6:27 AM EDT) -- Application by the mother to relocate with the children from Ontario to Nova Scotia. The parties married in September 2010. The mother said they separated in February 2020 while the father said they separated in December 2019. They had two children, born in 2013 and 2011. Since June 2020, the parties shared parenting time equally. The mother was originally from Nova Scotia and her extended family lived there. The father was from Southern Ontario and his extended family also lived in Southern Ontario. The children were born in Nova Scotia. The mother and father both worked for the military. In or around March 2018, the father was posted in Ottawa, Ontario. A few months later, the family moved to Rockland, Ontario. The mother was medically released from the military on November 30, 2021. The father continued to be employed by the Department of National Defence, but he planned to retire and enter the private sector. Over the years, the mother had some health challenges. She felt isolated in Ottawa because her support system was in Nova Scotia. She argued that by relocating to Nova Scotia, her mental health would improve with the assistance of her support system. She would also receive financial support from her family in Nova Scotia and she submitted that the housing costs were lower there. The father took the position that the relocation to Nova Scotia was not in the children’s best interests. He submitted that he had always been involved in the children’s lives and wanted to remain involved. By relocating the children to Nova Scotia, the father’s parenting time would be limited to approximately seven weeks per year....