Service dog laws in Quebec
Quebec has no official certification, and the provincial government says so directly. From Québec.ca:
« Au Québec, il n'existe pas de certification officielle délivrée par un organisme gouvernemental qui atteste de l'entraînement du chien d'assistance. »
In Quebec, there is no official certification issued by a government body attesting to an assistance dog's training.
That is the whole answer to "how do I register my service dog in Quebec." There is nothing to register with, and no document that a business is entitled to demand.
Where the rights come from
Quebec's Charte des droits et libertés de la personne (RLRQ c C-12) prohibits discrimination on the basis of a handicap or the use of any means to palliate a handicap. That second clause is what protects assistance dog handlers. As Québec.ca puts it: "Le chien d'assistance et le chien guide sont reconnus comme un moyen de pallier un handicap par les tribunaux québécois" — Quebec courts recognise assistance and guide dogs as a means of palliating a handicap.
The Charter itself, in the official English version — section 15:
No one may, through discrimination, inhibit the access of another to public transportation or a public place, such as a commercial establishment, hotel, restaurant, theatre, cinema, park, camping ground or trailer park, or his obtaining the goods and services available there.
And section 10, first paragraph:
Every person has a right to full and equal recognition and exercise of his human rights and freedoms, without distinction, exclusion or preference based on race, colour, sex, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, civil status, age except as provided by law, religion, political convictions, language, ethnic or national origin, social condition, a handicap or the use of any means to palliate a handicap.
The Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse (CDPDJ) is the body that handles discrimination complaints.
How dogs are identified in practice
Since there is no government certification, identification in Quebec is practical rather than legal. A working dog typically wears a harness, badge or scarf bearing the training organisation's logo.
A handler may present training documentation if they choose. But the position is clear: access must be granted even without it.
Emotional support animals in Quebec
There is no statutory public access right for emotional support animals in Quebec, as there is nowhere in Canada.
In housing, the route runs through the Charte's duty to accommodate a disability-related need, supported by documentation from your health care provider. As elsewhere in Canada, certification is irrelevant to whether that duty applies — because no certification exists in this province to be relevant.
A note on documents sold to Quebec residents
Quebec is a French-language market, and several operators in this industry offer French-language sites while selling documents framed around American law. A document referencing the Americans with Disabilities Act has no application in Quebec whatsoever, and no private certificate has legal effect here.
We say this plainly because we would rather you knew it than bought something on the strength of not knowing it.
Privacy — a Quebec-specific note
Quebec's Law 25 gives Quebec residents some of the strongest private-sector privacy rights in North America — access, correction, portability and de-indexing — and puts real obligations on operators around consent and breach reporting. If you are handing personal or health-adjacent information to any online service, including ours, those rights apply. Ask what a service does with your data before you upload a veterinary record to it.
What we do and do not do
We are a private registry. Quebec has no registry to be, and no document we issue means anything to a Quebec business or landlord.
What we offer is record-keeping — a training log of the tasks your dog performs, your veterinary and medical documents in one place, and a scannable profile for a vet or kennel. Useful. Not a certificate.
Last reviewed: 5 September 2026. Re-checked against Québec.ca and the Charte on 8 September 2026: both French quotations confirmed verbatim; the Law 25 sentence was reworded from an unsourced superlative to a description of the rights it confers. Verify current requirements at the primary sources above before acting.