What a load by Mr. Flanagan, an advocate of selling your soul to the highest bidder. Unlike the writer, I don't subscribe to the property ownership argument for Senators (with today's housing prices, this pool is sure to diminish). I don't believe it's good for democracy that those who can, should have access because they paid for it. He states that the big money has been driven from politics.  I disagree, this scandal is proving that big money has found a way, as it is want to do, around the rules. The paper trail being exposed here shows that not only is this practice immoral, but it is unethical, and I would hazard a guess, in the eyes of most Canadians, could be considered illegal. While it cannot be termed influence peddling by our current legal definitions,  in the eyes of the working classes, well, we're too stupid to understand the nuances I guess.