A “third party” in election-finance language is an organisation that spends to influence the outcome without being a candidate or a registered party itself. Industry associations, foundations, civil-society umbrellas, and parallel-campaign vehicles all fall in this bucket.
Third-party actors may need to identify an authorised agent, cap their spending within defined windows, and disclose donors above threshold. Coordination tests — whether the spending is directed by, or benefits, a specific candidate — matter for classification.
Journalists and analysts should compare ORPP / IEBC registers with ad-buy datasets and company filings to surface the parallel ecosystem; this tool reflects only what is already public or citizen-submitted.
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See the rules in action — open the financial-flow view to trace money against these rules, or run a scenario in the PPF calculator.