Subversion of Democracy

The adscam scandal is really beginning to bug me, not because of the waste of money, but because I believe that it borders on subverting the democratic will of the people. The reason is this: available funding is key to election success. I never really minded big donors to political paties because I believe that the donors represent a certain political will in support of that party in the community.
More money increases your chances of getting elected. It's not the only factor, of course, but it certainly is a strong one. In the last election, the conservatives looked like they might form a minority government until the liberals unleashed a torrent of american-style negative advertising that implied various ridiculious things like that the conservatives would destroy medicare, invade Iraq, build a fleet of aircraft carriers, beat us to death with non-withstanding clause charter overrides.
Now all that would be fine if it was paid for by supportive citizens - it would represent their political will.
However, if you use government funds to fund your campaign (via illegal donations to the party, by putting advertisers on the government payroll for overpaid or no work jobs to repay debt to said advertisers), then this no longer represents politcal will of the people, but the government favouring one party over another - and that's not supposed to happen in a democracy. In a democracy, the government should be neutral to the political parties, favouring none, so that they can be elected or rejected on the merits of their views. If the government gives an advantage to one party over the other, then political views no longer has primacy, and good ideas cannot succeed on their merits alone.
Damn - I would have been happier if they just took the money they swiped and built lavis villas in the countryside - using the money to preserve their assumed right to govern is just wrong in my books.