It took nearly two pages, Finder, but you answered the question: No, Mr. Layton shouldn't lie. Haha, geez, we do tend to draw these things out, don't we? Sorry for getting so accusatory, by the way. I may have been misreading your posts, but they seemed to amount, in my view, to read: "The Grits and Tories shouldn't lie, but the NDP doesn't do it as often, so that makes it okay."