Mark Carney faces plagiarism accusations
Liberal Leader Mark Carney has been accused of taking other people’s ideas as his own in the federal election campaign.
It isn’t new.
The National Post obtained a copy of Carney’s 1995 thesis for his doctorate in economics from Oxford University titled “The Dynamic Advantage of Competition.” It shows 10 instances of apparent plagiarism, according to the judgment of three university academics who reviewed the material.
In several sections of his thesis, Carney used full quotes, paraphrases, or slightly modified quotes from four previous works without proper acknowledgement or attribution.
“He’s just directly repeating without quotations. That’s what we call plagiarism,” said Geoffrey Sigalet, an assistant professor and member of UBC president’s advisory committee on student discipline, which handles plagiarism cases for the university.
I wonder who tipped them off?
How does one manage to plagiarize in such a bare-faced manner in a -doctoral thesis-? At Oxford, no less?
I guess the scholarship at Oxford ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. 30 years later we find out? That’s pretty lame, Oxford dudes.
About #CarkMarney, I am not surprised. Bro does not strike me as a principled gentleman, if you see what I’m saying.
Who tipped them off?
Well, if the Conservatives’ own opposition research is working as it should, I would hope it would be them. After all, we certainly can’t count on the NDP (for instance) to do the heavy lifting. They’re still butt-hurt that a whole bunch of their one-term MPs probably won’t be getting their iron rice bowl (gold-plated lifetime Parliamentary pensions).
Mark Carney is the Samsonite candidate – he comes with a lot of baggage.
The liberals blindly supported for three elections someone that after constant denial could not recall all of his malfeasance.
I doubt they care.
Two thumbs up!
“I wonder who tipped them off?” — Chrystia Freeland?
Plagiarized Bernie Sanders and Karl Marx.
Yes, Marxist on Marxist violence.
And yet, although a testatment to a persons’s character, it does not resonanate largely with a non academic crowd.
However, why no mention at all about Carney being an Irish and British citizen? How can the Prime Minister of a government be loyal to three countries?
It’s all explained in his book, War and Peace.
Plagiarism… “You took the words right out of my mouth.”
Plagiarism, wearing blackface, sweetheart deals for SNC or breaking laws.
It’s ok when they do it
It worked for sleepy Joe
Just in case anyone had any doubt about Carnage’s scruples- he’s got none. Zero. Makes Trudeau look positively principled and honourable. Didn’t even think that was possible.
Yet they gave him the doctorate.
There was one thing I learned while I was a graduate student, particularly while I was working on my Ph. D. If intelligence, talent, and hard work had anything to do with earning one’s doctorate, many universities would have to close because they couldn’t find enough professors.
It’s all politics at that level, which partly explains why many professors, though well-credentialed, are thick as two planks. It can also explain Carney.
Are you assuming that those who judged him actually bothered to read the thing?
Funny you should mention that. During my thesis defence, I could tell which of the committee members actually read what I wrote by the questions they asked.
“thousands of suspects” …
The anti-liberals are throwing everything they can winkle out or confect at the wall … etc
But I don’t think it will work.
How many Canadians have even heard of Truenorth and the like, or even read the National Post?
For the vast majority of Canadians there is one main issue – Trumpism and its threat to Canadian sovereignty.
The rest is background static.
https://www.thewrit.ca/p/the-numbers-as-ndp-collapses-carney
On the highly defensible premise that no honest politician is electable, Carney has no worries about his lack of election politics experience. He has plenty of political experience as one who only consented to anointment to the top jobs.
Stealing and cheating.
How very liberal.
Does anyone think it would be a one time thing?
He seems to be copying the Conservatives plans in order to provide a fig leaf of concealment for his net zero growth dreams. Did he copy the Japanese during the 2008 crisis in their plan for Quantitative Easing and pushing interest rates down to near zero, which everyone else was also doing, with about the same results?