Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney accused of plagiarism in his Oxford thesis

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been accused of plagiarizing parts of his thesis of Oxford University on the economy, a few weeks before voters will decide whether to continue in his role.

The accusations were allegedly made by three academics chosen to judge the Liberal Leader’s 1995 theses for his doctorate by the conservative newspaper The National post.

According to the newspaper, the three academics identified ten “potential” incidents of plagiarism.

One of them, Geoffrey Sigalet, a member of the Student Committee of the University of British Columbia, said he felt that Carney had used inappropriate to use others’ 300-page thesis with the title of 300 pages The dynamic benefit of competition.

“He just repeats directly without quotes. That’s what we call plagiarism, ‘Sigalet told Die Post.

One of the other three academics agreed with Sigalet, but did not want his name to be revealed in the article because he was afraid he could be sued by Carney.

Carney’s thesis supervisor defended his job.

“I believe that you disregard this work,” Margaret Meyer, an American economist and an economy -fellow at the Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, told the National post.

“As an academic of almost 40 years, I see no evidence of plagiarism in the thesis you cited, nor unusual academic practices,” she emphasized.

“The Mark thesis was evaluated and approved by a faculty committee that saw its work for what it is: an impressive and thoroughly researched analysis that distinguished him from his peers,” Meyer said.

A spokesman for the liberal campaign, Isabella Orozco-Madison, calls the allegations an ‘irresponsible miscurcterization’ of Carney’s work.

Carney’s office has not yet commented on the accusations.

Carney is frequently referred to in his thesis to a book from 1990 “The competitive advantage of nations. ” But the critics who are by the Mail claim that he does not have sufficient credit.

Carney was also accused of using precise phrasing and some complete sentences from the book, as well as parts of phrasing from three academic articles.

Meyer defended the inclusion of the phrases, saying that it is “typical that overlapping language appears” when “frequently referred to in an academic text.”

Carney, at Edmonton, Alberta, studied with a degree in economics at Harvard before obtaining a master’s degree at St Peter’s College in Oxford, and a doctorate in Nupield.

Carney was sworn earlier this month as the Prime Minister of Canada, replacing Justin Trudeau amid a hostile trade war and Trudeau’s increasingly acrimic relationship with President Donald Trump, who repeatedly deprived the Northern Nation as the 51st state of America and mocked Trudeau as a mere governor.

Trump and Carney shared their first phone call on Friday, and both men said they plan to start trading negotiations soon.

Trump characterized the call as “productive” and dropped his belittled public remarks about Canada. He even later told reporters that he did not believe that Canada had treated the US unfairly in trade.

In a surprisingly dramatic turnaround of his tone over the neighboring nation in the recent past, Trump said: “I think things will work out very well between Canada and the United States.”