Alberta's Bill 25 and the Politics of Procedural Change
In May 2026, Alberta enacted Bill 25, an act titled to remove politics and ideology from classrooms. An analysis in The Conversation Canada argues the legislation codifies a 'grammar of subtraction': a series of small, procedural changes that go largely unnoticed but carry profound, cumulative consequences. That is the awkward part of curriculum reform done by administrative edit. No single change has to look like a decision about what students should learn for the sum of them to amount to one.
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The phrase earns its keep. Each individual edit is defensible on its own terms, and the aggregate is where the argument actually lives.
The deeper premise is that curriculum is never neutral, as education researchers who study curriculum policy argue. On that view, a law promising neutrality has made a curricular choice rather than removed one.