B.C. foster parents lose emergency motion to keep Metis toddler

The British Columbia foster parents of a Metis toddler have lost an emergency motion in the Supreme Court of Canada to keep the little girl until their appeal is settled.

The couple’s lawyer says the children’s ministry plans to fly her to Ontario Friday to live with non-aboriginal adoptive parents and her biological sisters, whom she has never met.

The Vancouver Island couple filed leave to appeal to the Supreme Court and sought an injunction to stop the ministry from moving the girl until their leave application is decided.

But Canada’s highest court ruled the best interests of the child are paramount and favour continuation of the plan for the nearly three-year-old girl.