Canada and Grant Campbell

Grant Campbell: In his ruling last month, Justice Grant Campbell ordered that the girls must return to Egypt, the country of origin of their parents and the place where the girls have lived most of their lives. , according to Hamilton Spectator. "Parents should not be encouraged to choose Canada as a 'relocation option' after abducting their child from any country whose divorce laws are different from Canada, with an exception that they can claim jurisdiction here. The courts cannot support this type of quasi-criminal activity," Campbell said in his Dec. 31 statement. Engy and Rawan Mekawi were born here but they are being ordered to leave their home and live in Egypt. The judge said their divorced mother "abducted" the girls from their father when she came to Canada in 2012 without telling her ex-husband. A court order outlining custody and access rights already existed in Egypt, and those proceedings were still before the courts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.