As we’ve reported beforehand right here in TGP, the brand new Liberal get together chief and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has known as for snap elections for April twenty eighth, attempting to totally capitalize on the Liberal’s newest surge within the polls after infinite months badly trailing the Conservative opposition.
However because the marketing campaign begins, a reputational bomb has gone off on banker Carney’s lap, as an investigation by the Nationwide Put up recognized not less than 10 situations of obvious plagiarism in his 1995 Oxford College doctorate thesis.
Carney was discovered to make use of ‘full quotes, paraphrases, or barely modified quotes from 4 earlier works with out correct acknowledgement or attribution’.
Liberals are in a meltdown, calling Geoffrey Sigalet – the scholar who examined the proof – a ‘Conservative donor’, as a result of he contributed $288 again in 2022.
The Telegraph reported:
“On Friday, the Canadian prime minister and former governor of the Financial institution of England was pressured to disclaim allegations he copied 10 passages of textual content for his 1995 doctorate.
The allegations are a blow to his election marketing campaign. He faces a knife-edge vote on April 28 after calling a snap election towards the backdrop of an aggressive commerce conflict with Donald Trump.”
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“Geoffrey Sigalet, from the College of British Columbia mentioned: ‘He’s simply instantly repeating with out quotations. That’s what we name plagiarism’.
The examples of plagiarism had been despatched to Mr. Carney’s marketing campaign group, who described the allegations as an ‘irresponsible mischaracterization” of his work’.”
The sentences from the economist Michael E. Porter Jeremy C. Stein are alleged to be offered by Carney as his personal in his thesis.
Margaret Meyer, his doctoral supervisor at Oxford, defended the Liberal Occasion chief and mentioned she noticed ‘no proof of plagiarism’. ‘It’s typical that overlapping language seems’.
“Mark Carney is a mirage
Plagiarism accusations solely the newest proof he’s been oversold”https://t.co/gmXhrWUSl5 pic.twitter.com/5Y7dMohIB6
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) March 29, 2025
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