Dion does have a talent for turning an otherwise not abnormal situation into a political lightening rod.

That being said, the mother's complaints are little different from the complaints many fathers have during divorce proceedings.  

It serves the interest of the Divorce Industry to support an instigator.  On this occasion, the instigator is a father who has fled the country.  Most often, it is a mother who unilaterally kidnaps children, and there is no need to leave the country, because Divorce Industry folks concoct arguments to support restraining orders and other measures aimed at isolating the children from the from the father, for the sole purpose of escalating conflict and resulting Divorce Industry revenues.

It is sad for the mother in this case and for so many fathers placed in similar situations day-in and day-out all across the country, but it is just political opportunism that results in this example being tossed at the stone hands of the foreign affairs minister.