Who can give: Only individuals. Corporations, trade unions, and associations are prohibited from contributing.

laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/E-2.01/section-367.html
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That is one of the benefits of the Canadian system

Makes it harder to fundraise for a campaign, which makes it harder for talented people to go into public service
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Good news: the files containing years of donations are publicly available for anyone to download.

The bad news: the data formatting is dismal. Horrible. Whatever is used to collect this is crap.
And...
The politicians dont always report their donations. Until post election. That requires honesty.
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