Pot. Kettle. Black.

Stephen Taylor has an interesting post out highlighting the crass hypocrisy of the Liberals.

I thought the whole Harper plagiarism shtick the Liberals have been playing with lately was fairly silly. Especially the second example. It smacks of desperation. And while it may help them in the polls temporary I doubt it will have any lasting affect.

It now turns out there are examples at least as good as the Harris/Harper example. I wonder what hapless staffer will be fired over this?

This is at Stephen's blog already, and I don't want to scoop him (like I could) but I bolded the at issue sections to make it easier to read.


From an article written by Charles Mandel for Canwest on March 7th, 2008:
In a major forthcoming report on Canada’s changing climate, scientists warn of everything from increased severe storm activity in Atlantic Canada to hotter summers and poorer air quality in urban Ontario. British Columbia may face retreating glaciers and snow loss on its mountains, causing potential water shortages. The Prairie provinces will continue to struggle with drought, impacting agriculture rurally and potentially causing water rationing in urban areas.

On March 14th, 2008, Stephane Dion gave a speech on climate change which included the following paragraph:
In a new report released quietly last week by the federal Department of Natural Resources, 145 leading Canadian scientists warned that Canada’s changing climate will lead to everything from increased severe storms in Atlantic Canada to drought in the Prairies. British Columbia may face retreating glaciers and snow loss on its mountains, causing potential water shortages. There will be hotter summers and poorer air quality in urban Ontario. And the Prairies will continue to struggle with drought, affecting agriculture and potentially causing water rationing in urban areas.

The whole paragraphs are very similar, with Dion's basically parroting the paragraph from the article with only a few cut and paste tweaks. I bolded the clearest, most obvious examples.

I wonder if the MSM will pick up on this? Somehow I doubt it.