Three weeks in the life of Jack Layton

August 25. After a face-to-face meeting with Harper in Ottawa last week, Layton told reporters the NDP would be the "least likely" of political parties to support the Conservatives in office "because we have very fundamental differences with the direction that they’re taking the country."

Today. The NDP signalled today that it might be willing to prop up the Harper government and avert a fall election.