Do you want to have Alberta (or any other province) as your jurisdiction or is it better to have a federal jurisdiction?
Versatile Accounting provides professional corporate tax services in Calgary to corporations large and small. We also provide bookkeeping services for corporations and well as other small business structures.
The law will consider you and your business to be the same entity.
Likewise, anyone who is hurt either while on the job in your workplace or there as a customer or visitor will be able to sue you personally for damages.
This sort of “unlimited liability” is commonly seen as the most important “downside” to a sole proprietorship for a company that works with a large market, has lots of employees, and provides lots of services to the general public.
If you do not expect any liability issues, want to deduct early financial losses from your personal income for tax purposes, and want to keep initial costs down, pick a sole proprietorship.
Management can be “by committee” or one partner can be the manager.