[OTTAWA] Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s snap election just snapped back at him when Catherine Lévesque, a reporter with a leading newspaper here, posted an article documenting how three academics determined that the leader of the Liberal Party appears to have committed plagiarism.

The National Post obtained a copy of Carney’s 1995 thesis for his doctorate in economics from Oxford University titled “The Dynamic Advantage of Competition.” It shows 10 instances of apparent plagiarism, according to the judgment of three university academics who reviewed the material.

In several sections of his thesis, Carney used full quotes, paraphrases, or slightly modified quotes from four previous works without proper acknowledgement or attribution.

BREAKING NEWS: Carney plagiarized his PHD thesis.

He directly stole the work of others and
put his name on it.

Let’s be clear what plagiarism is:

FRAUD. STEALING. THEFT.

Mark Carney has a record of lying and he’s been doing it for years.

How can Canada trust a liar? pic.twitter.com/AVPqQUmK40

— Stephanie Kusie (@StephanieKusie) March 28, 2025

Carney, who holds triple citizenship with Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, served as the 120th governor of the Bank of England and the 8th governor of the Bank of Canada. 

Canada's parliamentary election is April 28. The polls show Carney holding his own against Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, with 41 percent of voters supporting him to the Conservatives' 38 percent.

In his 1995 doctoral thesis, “The dynamic advantage of competition,” the former Harvard Crimson hockey goalie explored how domestic competition improves a nation’s competitiveness and discussed the impacts of regulation and capital markets.

Throughout the thesis, Carney relies on Michael E. Porter's 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations. 

One example of what Lévesque is found on page 206 of the thesis.

Carney wrote: “First, government intervention can impede international competition and artificially support domestic profits.”

Later, he adds: “Second, in an industry or an economy where many firms are following harvesting strategies, firms may maintain profitability even though they are losing competitiveness.”

Those are virtually the exact sentences that can be found in Porter’s book on page 797 — except Carney added the extra determiner “an” and the adverb “even.” He did not use quotation marks or add a footnote to reference Porter’s work anywhere in the entire paragraph.

Carney, who took over as party leader from Justin Trudeau March 9, then from Trudeau as prime minister March 14, did not respond personally, but his party released a scalding response: 

Dr. Margaret Meyer, Mark Carney’s doctoral supervisor, is unequivocal: there is no evidence of plagiarism in his PhD thesis. Despite this, the American-owned National Post ignored this evidence and ran a story based on the “analysis” of a Conservative donor and activist.

The donor in question is Professor Geoffrey Sigalet, the director of the University of British Columbia’s Research Group for Constitutional Law, who donated $144 to the Conservative Party and $144 to Leslyn Lewis’ campaign for Conservative Party leadership.

Siglalet told Lévesque: “He’s just directly repeating without quotations. That’s what we call plagiarism.”

A U.S. hedge fund owns two-thirds of The National Post’s parent company.

Meyer also released her statement through the Liberal Party, defending her Oxian.

“I believe you are mischaracterizing this work,” she said.

The professor said what The Post calls plagiarism is routine.

“I see no evidence of plagiarism in the thesis you cited, nor any unusual academic practices,” she said. “When pieces are frequently referenced in an academic text, it is typical that overlapping language appears.”

Of course, any mark against her star pupil is a mark against herself.

Lévesque found a March 14 interview Meyer gave CBC, where she praised Carney for how quickly he completed his 300-page doctoral thesis.

“He finished his thesis in less than two years, while at the same time producing a much broader, and for that matter, a much longer thesis,” she said. 

“I showed a student today Mark's thesis, which I keep in my office, and it's twice as long as my own doctoral thesis.”

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