Right to know one’s origins in assisted procreation involving a third person

As of June 6, 2025, if your birth was the result of a gamete donation or a surrogate pregnancy, you will be able to obtain certain information about the person who contributed to your procreation, if available.

To this end, a new register of origin information will be set up.

It will tell you the person’s surname, given name and profile:

• age
• ethnic origin
• civil status
• level of education, diplomas and field of study, if any
• profession, if any
• height
• skin colour
• eye colour
• hair colour and texture
• personality traits, special skills, preferences and hobbies.

You will also have access to contact information, if the person has consented.

If you were born of a surrogate pregnancy, you can obtain certain documents, including a copy of the surrogacy agreement.

Before June 6, 2025

If you donated sperm or eggs before June 6, 2025, your identity will remain confidential. You can, however, agree to its disclosure.

On or after June 6, 2025

If you donate sperm or eggs on or after June 6, 2025, your identity will be accessible. You may, however, refuse to provide contact information.

Reproductive material from outside Québec

Before June 6, 2025, if you decide to use reproductive material from outside Québec (external sperm or egg bank) in the context of a parental project, you must send the registrar of civil status certain information about the donor profile if known, along with your child’s declaration of birth. Use the form Information on the profile of a person who has contributed to the procreation of a child (PDF 610 Kb).

As of June 6, 2023, all centres for assisted procreation must collect donor profile information.

In the year following June 6, 2025, i.e. by June 6, 2026, the centre for assisted procreation must transmit certain information concerning the reproductive material used to the Minister of Employment and Social Solidarity for entry in the register.

If the reproductive material comes from Québec, the centre for assisted procreation must send in the following information:

• Donor identity
• Contact information
• Information about the donor’s profile.

The centre for assisted procreation must provide the name and location of the company supplying the material if the material comes from outside Québec

and has been used to contribute to the assisted procreation of a child. The centre must also provide the names of the persons who used the reproductive material and the date of use.

Pregnancy beginning on or after June 6, 2023

The intended parents and the surrogate mother must apply to the court to change the filiation so that it is established with the intended parents.

This request must be accompanied by information on the profile of the surrogate mother. Use the form Information on the profile of a person who has contributed to the procreation of a child (PDF 610 Kb).

The court office will retain this information until June 6, 2025, and send it to the register.