The argument is arranged so a reader can understand the fiscal case before getting into the machinery behind it.
- PART I The Fiscal Case: The answer, the revenue, what Alberta would actually have to pay, and an adverse stress test of the result.
- PART II What Changes And What Does Not: Existing provincial services, pensions and benefits, and the one-time transition.
- PART III What Financial Capacity Creates: Illustrative choices for taxes, debt and savings; currency and liquidity; the federal debt and asset settlement.
- PART IV Costing Sovereign Functions: The assumptions used to put credible numbers on Indigenous programme continuity, land and environmental responsibilities, immigration, defence and other sovereign functions Alberta does not perform as a province.
- PART V Twenty Years On: Long-range scenarios. These are not needed for the current fiscal case and should be read as bounds, not forecasts.
APPENDICES: Sources, assumptions, detailed immigration and defence costing, the federal-domain ledger, the federal-revenue estimate, and a comparison with the earlier Value of Freedom analysis.
