Juno News - March 30, 2025


Mark Carney is facing serious accusations of plagiarism in his Oxford doctoral thesis


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A huge scandal broke in the National Post this morning about Mark Carney's plagiarism accusations for his 1995 Oxford doctoral thesis. Here we have Catherine Levesque going through it in detail, pointing out how there have been three academics that have reviewed his thesis, and they have some serious problems with the way that it was written. Several instances being pointed out of Kearney quoting other people's work verbatim, but without quotations and without sources. Which is plagiarism. That is textbook plagiarism, and it's a big no-no in the academic world.

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00:00:00.000 I want to talk about this scandal that broke in the National Post this morning. A huge explosive
00:00:04.860 story in the National Post. It says, exclusive, Mark Carney faces plagiarism accusations for his
00:00:11.360 1995 Oxford doctoral thesis. And here we have Catherine Levesque going through it in detail,
00:00:21.840 pointing out how there have been three academics that have reviewed his thesis and they have some
00:00:27.440 serious problems with the way that it was written. Several instances being pointed out of Kearney
00:00:33.440 quoting other people's work verbatim, line by line, but without quotations and without sources,
00:00:40.860 which is, I mean, that is plagiarism. That is textbook plagiarism. And to see it over and over
00:00:47.940 and over it. So let me just read a little bit from the National Post here. It says the National
00:00:51.760 Post obtained a copy of Kearney's 1995 thesis for his doctorate in economics from Oxford University
00:00:56.940 titled the dynamic advantage of competition it shows 10 instances of apparent plagiarism
00:01:02.360 according to the judgment of three university academics who reviewed the material in several
00:01:07.620 sections of the thesis Carney used full quotes paraphrases or slightly modified quotes from
00:01:12.280 four previous works without proper acknowledgement or attribution and so this is a big no-no in the
00:01:19.620 academic world