Canada's new premier underscores ethics

Sunday, December 14, 2003

OTTAWA -- A day after he was sworn in, Prime Minister Paul Martin met Saturday with his new Cabinet and said the first order of business would be creating an independent ethics commissioner to monitor his Liberal Party government's behavior. Martin, who served nine years as finance minister for outgoing Prime Minister Jean Chretien, also rejected a call from the leftist New Democratic Party to cancel several billion dollars in planned tax cuts in order to bolster health care and other social programs.

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