Day denies report of 2000 coalition plot with Bloc

The Globe and Mail reported on Wednesday that well-known Calgary lawyer Gerry Chipeur, who identified himself as an associate of Day's and the now-defunct Alliance, sent a written offer to the Bloc and Joe Clark's Progressive Conservatives before the votes were counted on election day on Nov. 27, 2000.
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Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe held up the letter during Wednesday's question period while grilling the former Alliance leader over the alleged plan, as well as over the Conservatives' apparent willingness to form a coalition with the separatist party in 2004.
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Day replied that the report was a "complete fabrication" and that he had never seen the letter, never endorsed it and would never sign such a deal.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/12/03/day-bloc.html#socialcomments
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Stockwell is probably lying with the truth here:

"report was a "complete fabrication"" - the dictionary meaning of fabrication is something manufactured or created, which of course would be technically true of a letter.

"he had never seen the letter" - he may not have seen that particular copy of the letter.

"he had never endorsed it" - lots of spinning possible here about the meaning of endorse (e.g. does it mean to agree with or initiate something, or to literally give one's signiture on a document).

"he would never sign such a deal" - Chretien won a majority, so there was no point in the signing the deal.

They can persuade themselves it is ok to lie in a rightous cause, rather like screwing for virginity.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=xDwJAAAACAAJ&dq=Jon+Krakauer&source=an&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result