The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) experiment is studying the
world's highest energy proton-antiproton (\ppbar) collisions.
The CDF collaboration consists of scientists from eleven 
different countries, including a group of 16 Canadian particle 
physicists affiliated with the Institute of Particle Physics (IPP).  
The IPP group joined CDF in 1991 for the Run I data taking period.
One of the highlights of Run I, which by all measures was a great success,
 was the discovery of the top quark.  The IPP group is now participating 
in the Tevatron Run II programme. For Run II, the CDF detector and the Tevatron 
collider underwent major upgrades and we anticipate a factor of 50-100 
increase in the statistics of specific final states by the end of 2008.
  
  The Tevatron and the CDF detector are performing very well with
data taking efficencies close 90\% and peak luminosities of 1.5~\invcms\.
This has allowed us to collect over 1~\invfb\  of data and an 
anticipated doubling of the current dataset between now and 
the end of next year.  The fully realized physics programme of 
Run II requires the analysis of inverse femtobarns of collision 
data. This integrated luminosity will allow us, for example, 
to search for new particles and forces, to measure the top quark mass, 
the W boson mass, and key parameters of the oberserved matter 
anti-matter asymmetry of the universe to unprecedented precision. 

 Our group has made major contributions to CDF Run-II data 
analyses by providing massive off-site computing resources 
and the human resources necessary to coordinate this effort.  
This involvement along with our long-standing contributions
to CDF software has allowed Canadian physicists to make
key contributions to the first physics results of Run II.

This proposal requests funding for the next 3 years in order
for the IPP group to fully capitalise on NSERC's signficant 
investment in the CDF II experiment and its physics. 
This will allow our graduate students, research associates, and 
faculty to continue their service contributions to CDF and to 
complete their ongoing physics analyses at a time where the most 
exciting physics in the history of Tevatron programme 
will be analysed.  

