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<blockquote><blockquote><tt>(d) significant extra-curricular activities.</tt></blockquote></blockquote>
This list is what lawyers call a ''non-exhaustive list'', meaning that the list of decisions in section 2(1) includes some but not all of the possible decisions that someone with decision-making responsibility may have to make. (An ''exhaustive list'', on the other hand, is a list that includes all of the possible choices, options or factors.) of all of the Other decisions could that someone with decision-making responsibility might have to make include deciding where a child will live or deciding whether to give permission for a school field trip. The ''Family Law Act'' goes into a lot more detail.
The ''Family Law Act'' goes into a lot more detail than the ''Divorce Act'' does. The list of parental responsibilities provided by the ''Family Law Act'' appears at section 41:
<blockquote><tt>Parental responsibilities with respect to a child are as follows:</tt></blockquote>