Turnaround: Tories Claim Stephane Dion Plagiarized Someone Else’s Speech
Posted October 7, 2008 12:00 pm.
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They say turnabout is fair play. Especially in politics.
Which brings us to a new claim by the Conservatives who have apparently turned the tables on Stephane Dion and the Liberals over a controversial revelation that created howls of protest last week.
The Tories contend they’ve found evidence that Dion plagiarized a part of his speech to a U.N. Climate Change conference in 2005. They maintain the script was actually written by an author named Dr. Robert W. Corell, who actually delivered it to the U.S. Senate a year earlier.
All this come just a week after a major scandal broke in which Liberal candidate Bob Rae produced evidence that Tory chief Stephen Harper lifted part of his own pronouncement on Iraq directly from Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
The Conservatives contend the Dion speech used “31 per cent” of the Corell text and never gave any attribution.
“This is just the latest example of Liberal hypocrisy on plagiarism,” a Tory press release contends. “When it comes to credibility, the Liberal message seems to be: do as we say, not as we do.”
The Grits have yet to respond to the allegations.
To see the video presentation of the alleged plagiarism, click here.
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