Stephane Dion’s Plagiarized Policy a Blemish on his Academic Career
So we hear from our not-so-dear friend Steve Janke that David Suzuki had a real good plan for cleaner air in this country. Stephane Dion thought it was such a good plan that he literally stole it.
Now before all you Chernamaniaks get on my case, I would like to point out that Stephane did not steal an idea or two, he took entire chunks of Suzuki’s plan, WORD FOR WORD, and passed it off as his own.
As a student, seeing Professor Dion’s campaign plagiarizing is outright shocking. If Dion submitted this report in any Canadian political science class, he would be given an F for plagiarism, and immediately fail the course.
As for dear Professor Dion, the first question I would ask as an aspiring journalist would be…If a student ever submitted that to you, what would you do to him/her?
Also, letting Stephane Dion off the hook for this would be like saying to political science students everywhere that when it comes to outside school, plagiarism is ok.
As an academic, plagiarism is the WORST possible accusation one can receive, as it is tantamount to academic fraud.
So as I prepare to walk into school for the first time this semester tomorrow morning and I sit down to hear the professors’ lecture about plagiarism and its consequences, it will carry a very different meaning, one a lot closer to my heart.
Now before all you Chernamaniaks get on my case, I would like to point out that Stephane did not steal an idea or two, he took entire chunks of Suzuki’s plan, WORD FOR WORD, and passed it off as his own.
As a student, seeing Professor Dion’s campaign plagiarizing is outright shocking. If Dion submitted this report in any Canadian political science class, he would be given an F for plagiarism, and immediately fail the course.
As for dear Professor Dion, the first question I would ask as an aspiring journalist would be…If a student ever submitted that to you, what would you do to him/her?
Also, letting Stephane Dion off the hook for this would be like saying to political science students everywhere that when it comes to outside school, plagiarism is ok.
As an academic, plagiarism is the WORST possible accusation one can receive, as it is tantamount to academic fraud.
So as I prepare to walk into school for the first time this semester tomorrow morning and I sit down to hear the professors’ lecture about plagiarism and its consequences, it will carry a very different meaning, one a lot closer to my heart.
par / by Anthony à / at 11:23 p.m.
12 Commentaires:
I didn't realize that your candidate or any other was a PHD in environmental science and climatology and had done original research in the field. I supposed that politicians used source material for their platforms. Dion had stated that he borrowed from the Suzuki report and most of the examples aren't even close to plagerism.
I'm sure that most Canadians would be very happy to see politicains look to tjhe Suzuki foundation for environmental platform initiatives. The originality is putting these initiatives into a political platform. Politicians aren't experts in the fields they rspresent as leaders or cabinet ministers. They all use someone else's research. This is not news. Like I said Dion is not a PHd doing original research in evironmental climatology. We all knew that before. No one else is either. Mr. Ignatieff is a PHD doing original research in Human Rights and his response to Quanna was, "I didn't lose any sleep over that." Now that's scary, and seriously problematic politiically because he does have a PHD in that field.
It's also not a University paper boys. It's a policy platform. When was the last time you saw a annotated bibliography at the end of a platform statement?
Shoshana
Show me where Dion said he borrowed from Suzuki before this story broke on Steve Janke's Blog.
and I will happily retract...plagiarism is not borrowing somebody else's work...its borrowing somebody else's work and passing it off as your own
Antonio:
You can't argue facts with Shoshana.
This isn't Biden stealing Kinnock, but it's not nothing. You can't take other individual's words and pass them off on your own word for word, academic or not.
Theyall use somoeone else's work Antonio. This is not news. tt's innovative to make Suzukiiis ideas intto platform. Like I said most Candiians would be very pleased with that. Is the Suzuki foundatttiion complaining that ther work miight aactually make it into the polcy of government after long last? i don't think so.
nneeed new keyboard. ignorre double letters unless apropriate.
For the most part, I think arguments about who can and can't win are largely empty. Who thought Harper could in Quebec?
But none of that takes away from the fact that a candidate of the supposedly highest knowledge ont he environment can't even have his own platform rewritten. If nothing else, this indicates a disorganized campaign with little deliberative policy development occurring.
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Your post is disgraceful.
Concerned YL:
They're empty arguments because they turn on a total unobservable (with the exception, perhaps, of Rae's term in Ontario). None of these men have been leaders, so we do not know how they will perform. What is more, these arguments are almost always clouded by silly and totally uninformed notions of how people in the regions in question actually feel.
I don't think these considerations are useless, indeed, they're important. They're just so hard to estimate. Who, for example, wants to admit now that Belinda was once seen as a winner and Harper a dud?
I'm sure David Susuki would rather see the world go up in flames than that his climate change plan would be plariarized. Seriously, saving the earth is not about who gets the credit.
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