The National Parole Board has granted day parole for six months to the Dorval mother who tried to kill her daughter after the 19-year-old stayed out all night with friends.
Johra Kaleki, 44, was sentenced in February to three years in prison for attempted murder in 2010.
Kaleki had wanted full parole - eligibility comes up next month.
But parole board members said day parole was "absolutely necessary," adding they still had many questions about accountability and her understanding of her criminality. They said there was "still a lot of work to be done."
While Kaleki's risk of reoffending was low and it was her first violent offence, board members said it was "extremely serious."
Kaleki spent an hour answering questions from the board members who were trying to understand why she attacked her daughter with a meat cleaver over an issue they said almost every family deals with but not to such an extreme.
Kaleki explained it was pent-up emotions and stress as well as her high expectations for herself to be a good parent. Kaleki said this was compounded by health problems and family problems back home in her native Afghanistan: her sister passed away and her ailing mother was trying to care for her sister's four young children at the time.
Kaleki said she learned from her nine months of therapy and re-integration program at the Joliette women's prison to be more open-minded, to express herself, to talk things over with her family and to seek professional help if necessary.
Kaleki said she also learned that violence is not the solution, that she is not a super human being and that what her daughter did was "not a big conflict."
To this day, Kaleki said she still doesn't remember the incident or that she told police her daughter brought shame and dishonour to the family. Kaleki said her crime was unacceptable and shameful.
Kaleki will have to stay in a halfway house and continue her re-integration program there.