Law360 Canada ( July 28, 2022, 6:21 AM EDT) -- Appeal by ML and DL from an appeal judge’s decision that struck their application for a parenting order under the Children’s Law Reform Act. The appellants cared for JT, a six-year-old Indigenous child with special needs, since she was eight-days-old. The respondent Dilico Anishinabek Family Care (“Dilico”) executed a temporary care agreement with the child’s biological parents after the child’s birth and placed her in the appellants’ care. The initial agreement expired in February 2016. The child’s biological father did not sign any of the subsequent care agreements. The appellants signed some but not all the agreements. Dilico planned to place the child with her maternal great aunt in Manitoba. The motion judge dismissed Dilico’s motion to strike the appellants’ application. The appeal judge struck the appellants’ application on the basis the care agreements provided Dilico with the authority to make legal decisions about the child’s best interests without judicial review....