no politician is dumb enough to risk taking “campaign contributions” from people who are widely considered to be the scum of the earth.

And yet they’ll accept campaign assistance from foreign and domestic oil companies:

https://canadians.org/analysis/when-big-oil-intervenes-canadian-politics-it-does-so-foreign-money-and-huge-scale/

https://canadians.org/media/new-report-reveals-pervasive-influence-big-foreign-oil-canadian-politics/