I appreciate that, but let me be a bit more precise. It's not a question to me if they're friends. The question is, who gave the gift?
I'll give an example. If a prime minister is friends with, let's say, Ted Rogers, and if it's established and been ruled on by your office that a prime minister is friends with this individual, and if that designated public office holder then receives free wireless services from Rogers Communications Inc. in perpetuity as a gift from the friend, and the friend is not incurring the expense and the corporation is forgoing revenue, is that an acceptable gift from a friend?
If it is not, has your office been satisfied in this case that the gift was in fact paid for by Mr. Green and was not just revenue that was forgone by a company that Mr. Green has an interest in?
I ask because I don't see them the same way.