[MarchHare]

To be more accurate, it was the Tories who began the negative campaigning when they released smear and attack ads first, with their ads "They'll Go Neg" and "Entitlements" appearing last week.

Anyway, Canadians in general do not respond well to negative campaigning (the 2004 election is an anomoly to that), but I fail to see how the Liberals are doing anything unfair here. If it's acceptable for the Conservatives to attack the Liberal record (and it is), why is it all of a suddent bad for the Liberals to do the same? Of the list of items you posted, most of them are direct quotes from Harper himself...how can those be misconstrued as "lies"? The only ones that might be unaccurate are the claims that Harper would have to raise taxes or run a deficit to pay for his platform (this may or may not be true) and that Harper would form some kind of alliance with the Bloc (which he did in the past to bring down the Liberals, but I doubt the two parties have much in common if the Conservatives were in power). The rest of that list is all either part of the CPC platform or Harper's own words.