Why are you allowed to buy memberships just to vote for a leader? It seems odd and disrespectful to the loyal member base. I understand the Alberta PCs can even belong to two parties at the same time. Ontario's Brown seemed to sell an awful lot of memberships in the Ontario PC party (40,000 of 70,000) despite being a largely unknown quantity. It just seems a system ripe for corruption should someone want to buy power. Particularly in this goofy Conservative Party scheme where a backwater in Quebec or Nfld is worth as many votes as downtown Calgary.