AB-009: Bill 9: Protecting Alberta’s Children Statutes Amendment Act, 2025

The businesses most directly affected are healthcare providers in Alberta — including physicians, psychologists, and pharmacists — who offer or have offered gender-affirming care to minors, as the Health Professions Act amendments entrench ministerial orders restricting those services and insulate them from rights-based legal challenges. Sports organizations, recreation facilities, and amateur athletic bodies operating in Alberta are also affected, as the Fairness and Safety in Sport Act provisions governing eligibility categories for female sport categories are similarly shielded from challenge. Private and independent schools in Alberta are touched through the Education Act amendments, which reinforce policies around parental notification and gender-related curriculum. These are largely professional practices, regulated organizations, and institutional operators rather than small independent businesses, though solo-practice clinicians and small sports clubs would be equally bound.