Dark money would potentially look like a company that might be registered, and therefore not allowed to provide gifts to MPs, contracting a third party. In essence, it's doing indirectly what it can't do directly, providing a third party with the funding mechanisms to fly a group of MPs across the Atlantic to London for an upscale conference that includes $3,400 in champagne and $1,000 steak dinners.
If it were the case, sir, that a company or an entity were funding something indirectly through consultants, how would you frame that? Would that be a violation of the conflict of interest code, or could it perhaps be considered a criminal act?