How Ottawa Spends, 2005-2006 : Managing the Minority

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The Martin Liberals (and the Harper Conservatives): The Politics of Governing Precariously -- PART 1 MACRO CHOICES AND CHALLENGES -- 2 Health and Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements: Lost Opportunity -- 3 How Ottawa Gambles: Rolling the Dice in Health Care Reform -- 4 Like a Sub Adrift: Defence Policy as a Litmus Test for the Martin Government -- 5 Made in Canada? The New Public Safety Paradigm -- PART 2 SELECTED POLICY, POLITICAL AND BUDGETARY REALMS -- 6 Symbolism, Surfacing, Succession, and Substance: Martin's Aboriginal Policy Style -- 7 Cross-Border Relations: Moving Beyond the Politics of Uncertainty? -- 8 Canada-United States Electricity Relations: Policy Coordination and Multi-level Associative Governance -- 9 Executive Federalism, the Democratic Deficit, and Parliamentary Reform -- 10 Into the Long Grass? Evaluating the Role of Commissions of Inquiry In the New Mandate -- 11 Does Parliament Care? Parliamentary Committees and the Estimates -- Appendix A: Canadian Political Facts and Trends -- Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends -- Abstracts/Resumes -- Contributors.