I watched the convention results live on CBC and Peter MacKay brilliantly called out the 2 major flaws in the leadership process. 1). The entrance fee to join the race was clearly too low which lead to so many fringe candidates entering with minimal fundraising just to get some spotlight for themselves on a national platform. 2). Every member who sent in a ballot should have been required to rank 10 candidates not just a few. Had every member ranked 10 candidates than the chance for ballot tampering would  have greatly been reduced and every member's ballot would have been considered for each round till the winner was announced.  This also would have prevented special interest groups like those representing pro-life that secured votes for Brad Trost  from having their candidates finish so high despite lacking any consensus support across the membership. These groups instructed their followers only to rank just their candidates and no one else. Some still ranked others but most did not.