Not a question of scale — the category does not exist here. Corporate and union political contributions are banned outright at the federal level and in Ontario, individuals only may give, and the annual caps are in the low thousands of dollars. There is no Canadian analogue to an unlimited-contribution super PAC, so there is no structure to copy and no first step to take.

The one thing that carries is an analytical habit, not a structure: when an institution announces a record, find out whose money it is. You will use that reading your own industry’s funding announcements far more often than you will use it reading the FEC.