If there was technical compliance with the act by the organizers of this reception; if you're in their position and you can host a reception, buy drinks and use your position of influence to spend time with a cabinet minister or an MP to make your case because you're a Liberal insider, why would you hire someone to lobby cabinet ministers to talk about a reportable matter, which would otherwise be reportable? Why would you pay someone when you can go directly and do what a lobbyist would do? You would just have a lot more access and a lot more influence. That seems to me to be, at least on the surface, what happened here.
