Rent-a-Tories, Liberal Supporters, and the death of accountability

My column this week on Loonie Politics is up, and continues to look at the issue of Michael Chong's Reform Act 2013. The issue of how parties choose leaders as having a longer-term impact remains a focus in this week's piece, and I get to employ one of the best political quotes from the past decade, being one from retired Senator Lowell Murray, about the loss of the party as the interlocutor between the citizens and the government.