Canada PM Stephen Harper plagiarised Australian PM John Howard

Canada opposition party accuses PM of plagiarism

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Associated Press

Toronto, October 01, 2008

First Published: 19:48 IST(1/10/2008)

Last Updated: 02:03 IST(2/10/2008)

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A senior campaign staffer for the governing Conservative Party resigned on Tuesday after admitting he wrote a speech for Prime Minister Stephen Harper that plagiarised another leader's address urging support for the US-led war in Iraq.

The Opposition Liberals released transcripts of speeches delivered by then-Australian PM John Howard on March 18, 2003, and one by Harper two days later in Canadia’s Parliament when Harper was Opposition leader.

Liberal foreign affairs spokesman Bob Rae said nearly half of Harper’s speech was a word-for-word recitation of Howard’s. “How does a political leader in Canada’s Parliament —on such a crucial issue — end up giving the same speech as another country’s leader?”  more