Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Harper Conservative Agenda: True Blue or Liberal-Lite? -- PART I: MACRO CHOICES AND CHALLENGES -- 2 Trading Up or Treading Water? Federal Fiscal and Budgetary Policies in Search of a New Mandate -- 3 Offshore Energy Revenues and Equalization: Having Your Cake and Eating it Too? -- 4 Canadian Energy Policy: Supply, Sustainability, and a Policy Vacuum -- PART II: HOW OTTAWA BUYS: PROCUREMENT AND ETHICS -- 5 How Ottawa Buys: Procurement Policy and Politics Beyond Gomery -- 6 How Ottawa Does Business: Ethics as a Government Program -- 7 Ottawa's Spending on Public Opinion Research: Implications for Democratic Governance -- 8 The Maritime Helicopter Project: The Costly Politics of Military Procurement -- PART III: SELECTED POLICY, POLITICAL AND BUDGETARY REALMS -- 9 How Ottawa Reviews Spending: Moving Beyond Adhocracy? -- 10 Chasing a National Priority: Health Canada, the Public Health Agency, and a Canadian Strategy For Cancer Control -- 11 Access to Emergency Medicines: How Ottawa Amends the Patent Act -- 12 Government Approaches to the Regulation of "Sin" -- Appendix A: Canadian Political Facts and Trends, 2005 -- Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends, 2005 -- Contributors.