Les contrats de GPA sont-ils exécutoires au Canada?


 

 

Contexte

Le principe de l’inaliénabilité du corps humain


 
[1] Carsley notes (about provincial legislators): “They might not have contemplated that these contracts contain a wide variety of clauses that go beyond simply setting out the child’s parentage.” CARSLEY, “Surrogacy in Canada: Lawyers’ Experiences and Practices,” (2022) 34:1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 41, p. 223.
[2] Women and men should be able to regulate their own bodies and if they want to sell parts of their bodies, what’s wrong with that? I think a lot of Canadians wouldn’t have a problem with that at all. Ibid, p. 234
[3] Compensation of a surrogate mother
6 (1) It is prohibited to pay a female person to act as a surrogate, to offer to make such a payment, or to advertise such an offer.

Comment faire respecter des clauses de contrat si ces dernières ne sont pas exécutoires ?


[4] Tom Blackwell, Couple sues Ontario surrogate mother who refused to abort fetus , National Post, 9 juillet 2026. When she heard nothing back after repeated requests, she went to small-claims court, only to learn that their contract required arbitration.
[5] MOTLUK, A., “Anatomy of a Surrogacy,” Hazlitt, November 6, 2017
[6] OGBOGU, Ubaka, “ Missing Concerns and Considerations in the Law and Policy Discourse on Paid Surrogacy and Oocyte Donation,” Health Law in Canada Journal (HLCJ), 2019.

Dans quelle mesure les conventions de GPA sont-elles juridiquement exécutoires selon les États ?

[7] Bien que le site de la Chambre des notaires soit disponible en anglais, l’information relative aux clauses comportementales des conventions notariées de grossesse pour autrui est la seule information qui n’ait pas été traduite.