The ethics of crowd-sourcing your re-election

My column this week on Loonie Politics looks at the incident of MP Charmaine Borg trying to use a crowd-source fundraising page to start funding her re-election, and all of the associated problems that came up not only with her initial reward offers, but with the concept in general, and why it's a problem for our democratic system in general. It may have been an attempt at trying something new, but it certainly fell flat on its face.