Plagiarism found in Conservative speech

Canada's Conservative Party often seems nearly as scandal-tarred as the GOP is in the good ol' U.S. and A.

Now it's been discovered that half of a 2003 speech delivered by Stephen Harper prior to becoming Prime Minister was plagiarized. The speech urged Canada to send troops into Bush's Iraq War and was copied from one given by Australia's right-wing then-Prime Minister John Howard.

This scandal has forced the senior Conservative campaign official who "wrote" Harper's speech to resign in disgrace.

Some of the lines from Howard's speech also appeared in editorials Harper submitted to major newspapers.

Bob Rae, a Member of Parliament from the Liberal Party, said this is proof that Canada under the Conservatives is losing its foreign policy influence. Canada appears to have become almost an external territory of BushAmerica and other right-wing governments. (The U.S. media played a major role in the conservative rise in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere.)

Naturally, the Conservatives blamed the Liberals for daring to expose the plagiarism.

BushAmerica is now BushWorld.

(Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080930.welexnplagiarism0930/BNStory/politics/home)