The Ethics Commissioner actually does address this area in her report. She says that essentially the gifts benefit rules should not be extended to cover what she views as a political interest as opposed to a personal interest. It's one of the major things the coalition disagrees with. To say that a gift to your riding association is not a gift to you is just a false dichotomy. It should be made explicit that gifts....
First of all, there should be an apparent conflict of interest standard that applies to political interests such as fundraising or campaigning. She essentially opened things up greatly and actually contradicted her gifts guideline, which is very strict.
Her gifts guideline says you can't even accept a pen as a gift, if it was from a lobbyist while you were making decisions about something that affected the lobbyist, but your riding association can. In fact, your riding association can accept all sorts of help from a lobbyist who's lobbying you.
So she contradicted her own guideline. If she reversed her ruling, that would be fine, but because she's not going to, you need to change the rules to say that a gift, including to your riding association or any other political entity associated with you, is a gift to you.