This means that a person feeling improperly dealt with by Provincial Law can appeal to Federal Law to overturn the Provincial decisions on custody and access or care and control of a minor. Provincial Laws vary from Province to Province but have some underlying structure. There is a standard that all Acts written must conform also to the Constitution Act so that too must be considered. Some aspects of geography have to be considered in Provinces with very distant small populations. Here there may need to be delays accepted before a doctor, or psychiatrist can reach and determine the sanity of an individual.
Some Provinces allow the detention of mentally disordered persons without treatment.
There is a conflict evident in the various rules that we should look at. Some insist that they are and that they must come to decisions on treatment by themselves. Others insist that they are not entirely and that in the matter of treating a mental disorder there has to be a residuum of paternalism to speed up recovery, avoid confusing the condition with the its effects on thinking and to assist those others in the community who are also affected by the disorder - family friends and employers. Because of this conflict, hospital staffs charge patients who assault, but the Courts send the people back to a hospital ward for treatment rather than a detention facility for correction and isolation. This is extremely wasteful in a time of so-called cutbacks and economy.