As we’ve reported previously here in TGP, the new Liberal party leader and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has called for snap elections for April 28th, trying to fully capitalize on the Liberal’s latest surge in the polls after endless months badly trailing the Conservative opposition.
But as the campaign begins, a reputational bomb has gone off on banker Carney’s lap, as an investigation by the National Post identified at least 10 instances of apparent plagiarism in his 1995 Oxford University doctorate thesis.
Carney was found to use ‘full quotes, paraphrases, or slightly modified quotes from four previous works without proper acknowledgement or attribution’.
Liberals are in a meltdown, calling Geoffrey Sigalet – the scholar who examined the evidence – a ‘Conservative donor’, because he contributed $288 back in 2022.
The Telegraph reported:
“On Friday, the Canadian prime minister and former governor of the Bank of England was forced to deny allegations he copied 10 passages of text for his 1995 doctorate.
The allegations are a blow to his election campaign. He faces a knife-edge vote on April 28 after calling a snap election against the backdrop of an aggressive trade war with Donald Trump.”
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“Geoffrey Sigalet, from the University of British Columbia said: ‘He’s just directly repeating without quotations. That’s what we call plagiarism’.
The examples of plagiarism were sent to Mr. Carney’s campaign team, 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 presented by Carney as his own in his thesis.
Margaret Meyer, his doctoral supervisor at Oxford, defended the Liberal Party leader and said she saw ‘no evidence of plagiarism’. ‘It is typical that overlapping language appears’.
“Mark Carney is a mirage
Plagiarism accusations only the latest evidence he’s been oversold”https://t.co/gmXhrWUSl5 pic.twitter.com/5Y7dMohIB6
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) March 29, 2025
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