p2pnet - rss feed: Plagiarism accusation hits Stephen Harper
p2pnet news view | Politics:- With Canada’s snap election only two weeks away, Conservative leader Stephen Harper has received another serious blow to his credibility.
He’s in charge of a minority government which must do more than merely win: it needs 28 more seats to gain complete control.
But an important 2003 parliamentary speech Harper delivered in 2003 on the Iraq invasion was in parts a word-for-word copy of a speech delivered only days earlier by former Australian prime minister John Howard.
The news was revealed by Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae.
“Owen Lippert, a Conservative war room strategist, abruptly resigned yesterday afternoon, three hours after a senior Harper strategist, in a conference call with dozens of journalists about the matter, branded the issue a desperate attempt by the Liberals to deflect attention from a sagging campaign,” says the Canwest News Service.
Ironically Lippert, now an ex-member of Harper’s staff, having resigned, specialises in intellectual property law and he author of Competitive strategies for the protection of intellectual property.
Do you think every speech Harper ever made will now be under intense online scrutiny?
Meanwhile, not surprisingly, “The plagiarism allegation made front-page news in Australia on Wednesday after being picked up on CNN in the United States,” says the story.
Definitely stay tuned.
Canwest News Service - Day 24 : Controversy amid the quiet, October 1, 2008
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October 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am
Now the whole world must doubt the credibility of our PM.
But hey - the US re-elected Bush. D’ya think they are having regrets?
October 1st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
No wonder all the conservatives sound alike to me.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:35 am
Now that’s really getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Guess I won’t be voting conservative that much more so.
We DEMAND! [rough draft]
Economic reform:
Return to gold standard
Abolish maritime laws on land
Drop WTO, drop SPP, drop NAFTA, increase laws and penalties on big business, you broke it you fix it and pay for it too
No environmentally toxic businesses
Freeze all Canadian SPP activities, subject to full public disclosure and debate.
Curtail foreign takeovers of Canadian corporations and regain lost ones
All corporations to be reviewed each year before they are allowed to continue or be licensed
Establish a royal commission on banking practices in Canada
Canada must become a full sovereign land again
Poverty:
Expand all social programs to 1990 levels and above
Raise corporate taxes to 40% of their income, no ifs or butts
Preserve and improve universal health care to best in the world
Abolish poverty, especially child and single parent poverty by 99%
Environment:
Nationalize the oil sands [90% of countries worldwide nationalize their oil resources]
Nationalize all mineral resources
Air and water are NOT for sale
Create provincial Kyoto Bonds to be purchased by Bank of Canada to subsidize compliance with Kyoto Protocol
Clean up all toxic Canadian lands
Take on best European models for forestry and land management
Parliamentary Reform:
Have mixed member proportional representational system
If candidate lies, fibs or manipulates they should go to jail
Absolutely No backroom deals, publicize all meetings
No corporate lobbyists and all lobby meetings made public
Jail corrupt officials
Tax businesses only, abolish taxes for anyone making less than 100 k
Kill bill c51 and abolish WTO control of our food, herbs and medicine
Kill bill c61 and present fair copyright laws
Raise Minimum wages as per living standards
Gangs sent back to their countries
Bring back hemp products
Less jails & more community teaching, much more prevention
Restore and improve health care to 1990 standards and above
Free energy cars & vehicles, owned / built in Canada by Canadians for Canadian conditions
Implement free solar, hydro, natural magnet, wind and other energy sources to take over present abusive systems
Improve Net neutrality & online privacy / anonymity for all
Throttle Bell, Rogers and other Telco abuses, we demand fiber Internet per each home at no more than $5 per user unlimited bandwidth
All media companies must report full truth without pressure from politics or big business
Peace officers not police, actually jail abusive police same as any other criminal
Pull army back to Canada from abroad. If we are to have an army then it should be similar model to what Switzerland has
Evict scientology and other cults
Return land to natives as per original treaties
Create fair system of checks and balances for everything
Free collage and university schooling
Take the best ideas from around the world and build the best country for free people in the world
Government is here to protect the people and interests of people, not filthy rich abusive corporations!
Canada must be in top 3 on OECD list: http://www.oecd.org
Every Canadian interested in bettering their future must watch WHO killed CANADA?’ [and still is] - A 2008 Election Primer - http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8632069635967998175
We are Canadians, WE CAN DO THIS!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:04 am
FCKING MINT list Freeman! You put a great deal of consideration into and I have to say I totally agree with most the list especially the scientology cult, the fair copyright, throttling fucknut ISP’s, Peace Officers not police , and much more!
WHO killed canada excellent doc!