Alberta already runs most services people use every day, but sovereignty adds other functions.
The fiscal model separates three cases:
Services that continue unchanged
Alberta institutions that gain national responsibilities
Functions that must be built because only Ottawa performs them today.
The functions of government fall into three groups, and they behave completely differently.
That distinction matters because extending an existing institution is usually much cheaper than building a new one. The C$13.0 billion federal replacement line in Table 3 already contains those costs; Appendix F gives the full domain ledger.
