Well, you couldn't go much lower. Several surveys in the past several years have shown that only 10% to 20% of Canadians trust politicians. They believe that you are trying to protect elites and yourselves and don't address their concerns.
This move is essentially saying that we're going to legalize bribery, that we're going to let lobbyists buy you off in elections by doing favours for you, campaigning at a very high level up to nearly full-time, raising unlimited amounts of money for you and your party and then lobbying you right afterwards. There is no cooling off period for this. It is not a one-year or two-year period.
This is a huge loophole that is unstated in the draft code. As long as you do it less than nearly full-time and without frequent or extensive interactions with a candidate or an official, you can start lobbying them the next day. If it's in-between elections, you can raise tens of thousands of dollars for a cabinet minister or their party and continue lobbying them. No stop.
It's going to bring in the U.S.-style corrupt politics into Canada. It's the most corrupt thing I've seen a so-called good government watchdog do in 30 years. It's going to corrupt every policy-making process that affects 35 million Canadians. Hopefully Canadians will storm Parliament, because it is a reason to storm Parliament. This is a systemic—