Does the Superior Court of Justice have jurisdiction to intervene to override private contracts?

[19] The mother’s counsel argued that, although the superior court of a province has a parens patriae jurisdiction and can therefore intervene to override private contracts, this court has no such inherent jurisdiction and is therefore unable to act, even where intervention would otherwise be required in the child’s best interests. With respect, I do not see in the decision in Lenney v. Lenney any such restriction on the court’s ability to intervene, where it is otherwise necessary to do so, in order to further the best interests of the child. Simply put, I conclude that this court does have jurisdiction to act where the best interests of the child so require.