‘titrebSummary’/titrebThis text examines the education policies of the Canadian provinces and territories from the perspective of governance and its evolution. It is based on the analysis of empirical evidence from case studies (around 25 pages each) on the educational policies of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada and their evolution since 1990. The article argues that the importance of the government through the imposition of standards (defined at the top of the pyramid of the education system in relation to international bodies), the centralisation of curriculum and evaluation visible in many provinces and territories, the desire to give more space and power to parents, by extending the choice of school and by encouraging staff on school councils to contribute to the contracting of institutions around success or performance plans, all points towards what could be called an outsourcing of education. This means the process of penetration and transformation by external logic of a field of activity, with relative autonomy. Liberal democracy based governance pursues this policy of outsourcing education and gradually turns it into a market product.