Stealing the environment
Lots of news about Stephane Dion's Clean Air Plan. I like Dion, and I respect him, so I seriously doubt that he went ahead and tried to pass off the Suzuki Foundation report as his own. I believe that it was a mistake, and that someone forgot what they took from the report and what they wrote themselves. Dion should come out and apologize for the mistake, and should probably even look into getting rid of whoever copied that section or allowed it into the final draft.
And unlike some bloggers, I don't think this one will pose a problem for Dion as such, but it's not good for him. While he may have more people actually read the report than would have before, few people will really still be able to think of Dion as the great environmental candidate. Whatever he says relating to the environment will have that "was this actually his idea or did he steal it from someone else" tag on it. And that really doesn't bode well for someone who prides himself on his environmental policy.
1 comment:
ok...can you imagine a college or university student saying to his/her prof that "It was just a mistake that my paper looks like someone else's"??? They would care less. At worst, Dion though that no one would ever compare the two documents and at best, Dion passed this important job onto some lackey who either did or did not know the importance of proper attribution. Either way, it shows a HUGE lack of judgement on Dion's part. I dont care if he got an idea from someone else- good ideas are hard to come by. But to try to pass that idea as your own, when it is truly not is something students have been told time and time again is wrong. And the fact that the Dion camp changed the document AFTER the charge of plagarism came down just speaks volumes
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