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In arguing to have the case re-opened, the father’s lawyer, Joanna Harris, also blasted arbitrator Herchel Fogelman’s ruling.

Fogelman wrongly approved “experts” who lacked authority to testify, knew nothing about a key federal vaccination organization and failed to give the father help the law requires for litigants who lack legal representation, Harris said in written pleadings.

An Ontario Superior Court judge gave the green light Thursday for the appeal to proceed, though the father had missed the deadline for doing so. Justice Freya Kristjanson also imposed an interim ban on publishing the parents’ or children’s identifies, and will consider a more sweeping request from the mother to seal the whole court file on June 25.

“The issues of vaccines is a polarizing one,” the judge noted.

The mother has previously declined to talk about the case, and her lawyer said Thursday he was not authorized to comment.

Every week you can see, the measles are going crazy

In an interview with the National Post, the father said he feels it is more important than ever that his children receive the basic childhood vaccines. They’ve already suffered a bout of whooping cough, a vaccine-preventable illness.

“Every week you can see, the measles are going crazy,” said the businessman, who is paying his legal bills largely with a Gofundme campaign set up when the Post first reported on the case. “There is a sense of urgency. We really need to do something very quickly … I was trying to bring this as a community issue; it’s not just a personal matter.”