More Arts Funding = Less Plagiarism

What a wonderful twist of irony today's news is. One of Harper's speechwriters, unable to come up with anything original to say, steals a speech from the Australian P.M. In all honestly I don't believe that Harper had nothing to do with it. He is, to his very core, unoriginal and finding a staffer to throw under the bus every time he gets caught at something has become a standard tactic. The point remains though that if Harper and the Conservatives put more stock in the arts. If, for example, Harper read more they would be less inclined to steal the words of others, or at least would know that it was wrong.