Cities are rising in prominence within the Canadian federal system. While advocates are demanding more money and power for cities, traditional barriers to multilevel governance are weakening. Canada: The State of the Federation, 2004 offers indispensable insights on the role of cities in an evolving system of multilevel governance. Contributors provide a background to the recent changes in policy and power structures and an analysis of amalgamation and restructuring. They also explore housing policy, the integration of immigrants, and regional development in places as diverse as Mississauga, Saskatchewan, rural Newfoundland, and Vancouver. Contributors include Loleen Berdahl (Canada West Foundation), Melville McMillan (Alberta), Thomas Courchene (Queen's), Andrew Sancton (Western Ontario), Pierre Hamel (Montrial), Jean Rousseau (Conseil de la santi et du bien-jtre), Julie-Anne Boudreau (INRS-UCS), David Siegel (Brock), Christian Poirier (Laval), David Hulchanski (Toronto), Patrick Smith (Simon Fraser), Kennedy Stewart (Simon Fraser), Tom Urbaniak (Cape Breton), Christopher Dunn (Memorial), Joseph Garcea (Saskatchewan), and Kenneth Pontikes (Saskatchewan).