Ms Sara Cohen:

There are a few payments intended parents would make. To pay an intermediary is different from reimbursing a surrogate. There are various models on paying intermediaries. Under some, one would pay upfront for access to a system to find a surrogate. Under others, one would pay a very small amount for them to help one organise one’s profile and one only pays after having found a surrogate. There are different models on how that works in Canada. The payment for the intermediary is different from any reimbursements to the surrogate. Those are completely separate.