Who is Owen Lippert?

[daleo]

This appears to be the designated fall guy.

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

Here's a few google hits on the name:

http://oldfraser.lexi.net/about_us/people/owen_lippert.html

Owen Lippert holds a Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Following his graduation in 1983, he worked as managing editor for the Asia and World Institute in Taipei, Taiwan. Returning to Canada in 1984, he worked first as a caucus researcher for the Social Credit government and, then as a policy analyst for the Office of the Premier until 1991. He joined the staff of Kim Campbell as press secretary during Campbell's tenure as attorney general of Canada and minister of Justice. In 1993, while an advisor during Campbell's leadership campaign, he taught at Carleton University and the University of British Columbia and he was a senior policy advisor in Industry and Science Canada during Campbell's tenure as Prime Minister. In 1994, Dr. Lippert worked on contract for the Canadian department of Justice before going to work as a senior policy analyst at The Fraser Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1996, he joined the Editorial Board of The Globe & Mail in Toronto. His specialties are public policy and legal reform.

If its this guy, not only does he know all about the laws against plagerism (a PhD yet), but he is a Fraser Institute "researcher", and ex Kim Campell policy adviser and press secretary and worked for the Globe. That all seems pretty incredible. Say it ain't so!

Then there's this one:
Owen Lippert, Senior Policy Advisor , Office of the Minister—2008—Second Quarter

Then there's this:
Owen Lippert was formerly Director of the Law and Markets Project at the Fraser Institute. He writes and researches on intellectual property, aboriginal, ...

And so on...

[HeresyLives]

1. Scapegoat du jour.

:rofl:

[daleo]

2. And he wrote a book on intellectual property

Competitive strategies for the protection of intellectual property (Paperback)
by Owen Lippert (Author)

http://www.amazon.ca/Competitive-strategies-protection-intellectual-property/dp/0889752001

Amazing.

But really, this is no wet behind the ears staffer. He is an entrenched member of the Conservative "intelligencia" (Fraser Institute, etc). Harper must have known about the Howard speech, as Harper has patterned his political career on Howard. I find it very had to believe that Harper was ignorant of this.

[HeresyLives]

3. Maybe they should check

his PhD as well.

:rofl:

[daleo]

4. Notre Dame's a good university

This doesn't look good on them, one of their PhDs plagerizing a speech. Maybe some media person will email them, for their opinion of the matter.

[HeresyLives]

5. Assuming he had anything to

do with it.

He may just have pulled today's short straw. ;)

[daleo]

6. That's very possible

Also consider that he has a safe sinecure in the neo-con think-tank world (Fraser Institute, etc). He's no spring chicken - I believe he got his PhD back in the mid to late 80's, so his financial future is likely secure. So, he could afford to draw the short straw and take one for the team.

There's a lot more to this. The really interesting question, is who wrote the Australian's speech that Owen Lippert plagerized? I bet it goes right back to a neo-con think tank in Washington.

[HeresyLives]

7. Harper writes his own speeches.

BTC: ‘An oratory double-threat’
By Aaron Wherry | Email | September 30th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Posted to: Capital Read, The Commons |

“Like most political leaders Harper rarely writes his own speeches from scratch, and usually just edits off a computer from the early drafts penned by his full-time speechwriters. But the prime minister plugged away at his Saturday speech over several days, pulling out his laptop between campaign stops and putting on the finishing touches as he flew in from Calgary this week.”
—Canadian Press, Sept. 27, 2008
“Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has written his own speech for the Press Gallery Dinner tonight, and he will be ready with his goofy impersonations of Revenue Minister John McCallum and former prime ministers Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien.”
—Globe and Mail, Oct. 22, 2005
“I’ve been told that Harper writes many of his own speeches, so if this is true, he represents an oratory double-threat (he can write it and he can speak it).”
—Stephen Taylor, Mar. 19, 2005.
http://blog.macleans.ca/category/blog-central/

[CHIMO]

8. Connections

United Press International - Monday, 12 November 2001

"The EU is refusing to commit to reducing export subsidies that have devastated the agricultural economies of developing nations. Appeasing French farmers appears more important to the European Union than giving poor countries a chance to establish sustainable market economies," commented Owen Lippert of the International policy Network, a group of 30 free-market institutes around the world.
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:xQEzjGbNvtIJ:www.aegis.com/news/upi/2001/UP011101.html+%22international+policy+network%22+lippert&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=ca

Introduction and summary
Julian Morris
The author
Julian Morris ([e-mail]) is Co-Director of International Policy Network and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. A graduate in economics from Edinburgh University, he holds Masters degrees from University College London and Cambridge University, as well as a graduate diploma in law from Westminster University.

Price controls undermine investments
Owen Lippert shows that the World Health Organisation proposal to impose price controls on pharmaceuticals would be counterproductive. A far better way of ensuring that pharmaceuticals are supplied to the world's poorest would be to deregulate the pharmaceutical industry, enhance patent protection for pharmaceuticals, and enable pharmaceutical companies to price discriminate.
http://www.ccsindia.org/ccsindia/julian_two.htm

Pundits who contest climate change should tell us who is paying them
The story begins with a body called the International Policy Network (IPN). Like many other organisations that have received money from Exxon, it describes itself as a thinktank or an independent educational charity, but a more accurate description, it seems to me, would be "lobby group". While the BBC would seldom allow someone from Bell Pottinger or Burson-Marsteller on air to discuss an issue of concern to their sponsors without revealing the sponsors' identity, the BBC has frequently allowed IPN's executive director, Julian Morris, to present IPN's case without declaring its backers. IPN has so far received $295,000 from Exxon's corporate headquarters in the US. Morris told me that he runs his US office "solely for funding purposes".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/sep/26/comment.oil

I think it's called the cockroach principle.