# Bayview Strategies Bayview Strategies Inc. prepares Canadian founders and entrepreneurs to put their own case to government — building their own government-relations capability across federal, provincial, and municipal files rather than lobbying for them. Based in Toronto, Ontario. > Bayview Strategies prepares founders and entrepreneurs to make their own case to government. Rather than speak for its clients the way a traditional lobbying firm does, Bayview builds their own government-relations capability: the strategy, the submission or bid, and a clear read on who actually signs off, then readies the founder to make the case directly. Government would rather hear from the person who built the business than from a hired lobbyist, and that is the firm's whole model. It is principal-led: Gurkamal Dhahan carries each mandate himself, with no junior delegation. The work is grounded in the operational frameworks of Canadian government: Treasury Board submission standards, PSPC procurement procedure, the Defence Procurement Strategy, and the matching provincial and municipal machinery. The firm works across all three levels of government (federal in Ottawa, Ontario at Queen's Park and other provinces, and municipal) for founders, innovators, industry associations, and operators in regulated sectors. ## Services The firm offers six practice areas: - **Federal Programmes & Procurement** — Win the bid in your own name. We build the eligibility read, the application, the business case to Treasury Board standard, and the bid strategy, then put you in front of the programme as the credible applicant — because the people who award the money want to deal with the company doing the work, not an agent. Covers ISED-administered programmes, PSPC procurement, the Defence Procurement Strategy, and the Industrial and Technological Benefits (ITB) / Value Proposition frameworks, with the matching Ontario and other-provincial programmes. - **Policy Research & Regulatory Strategy** — Walk in knowing more than the room. When a regulation or consultation can reshape your sector, the strongest voice is the operator who brought the evidence. We build the research, the regulatory read, and the submission — consultation responses, committee briefs, impact and competitor analysis — and prepare you to put it forward yourself, federally, at Queen's Park, or in another province. - **Applied Technology & Digital Advisory** — Make the technical case land with the people who fund it. The science is yours; what wins a federal programme is the structure around it — readiness framed the way the reviewer reads it, the method defended, the application built to what the stream requires. We architect that and rehearse it with you. The firm advises; it is not the technical execution team. - **Strategic Engagement & Coalitions** — Build the alliance before the file is contested. A founder carries more weight with allies behind them. We map the actors across sectors and across all three levels of government, sequence the conversations, and help you resolve competing interests into one position — built early, and fronted by you and your coalition rather than a hired convenor. - **Government Relations — Built In-House** — Your own playbook, not a standing retainer. Instead of speaking for you, Bayview builds the hard-to-see part of government relations: translating what your business needs into the language a Treasury Board analyst or ministry signs off on, mapping who holds the pen across federal (Ottawa), Ontario (Queen's Park), other provinces, and municipal government, and timing the approach to the decision and budget cycle. You arrange and take the meetings; Bayview readies you for them. - **Crisis & Issues Management** — Structure when the clock is running. When a regulatory intervention, a disruption, or hard public scrutiny hits, you need to be the steady voice, fast. We run the rapid-response strategy, the government-facing issue management, and the holding-statement approach beside you, alongside your legal and communications teams, so you stay in front of it in your own name. ## About / Principal Gurkamal Dhahan is the Principal and Founder of Bayview Strategies Inc. He has worked the federal, provincial, and municipal sides of policy in Canada. - **Role:** Principal & Founder, Bayview Strategies Inc. - **Prior roles:** Director of Government Relations and Partnerships at Mitacs; Senior Policy Advisor on Innovation and Technology to the Ontario Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade; earlier roles across the Ontario Public Service and municipal government. - **Education:** Master of Public Policy, Administration and Law (MPPAL) and Bachelor of Public Administration (Specialized Honours), both from York University. - **Programme:** Graduate of the Ontario Legislature Internship Programme (OLIP). - **Location:** Toronto, Ontario, Canada. - **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/bayview-strategies ## Contact - **Email:** inbox@bayviewstrategies.ca - **Phone:** 416-992-3136 - **Based in:** Toronto, Ontario, Canada — working across federal (Ottawa), provincial (Queen's Park and other provinces), and municipal government. - **Website:** https://bayviewstrategies.ca ## Key pages - [Home](https://bayviewstrategies.ca/) — Firm overview: what Bayview is and the public-decision files it works. - [Practice Areas](https://bayviewstrategies.ca/services) — The six practices in detail, with engagement scope and how an engagement runs. - [About](https://bayviewstrategies.ca/about) — Principal Gurkamal Dhahan's background and credentials, the firm's position, and its operating principles. - [Insights](https://bayviewstrategies.ca/insights) — Field notes and policy briefs on Treasury Board standards, defence procurement (ITB), ISED/IDEaS programmes, regulatory submissions, and federal, provincial (Queen's Park), and municipal alignment. - [Field Guides](https://bayviewstrategies.ca/guides) — Evergreen explainers on how Canadian government actually decides: Treasury Board submissions, the Lobbying Act, federal procurement, and engaging Queen's Park and city hall. - [GR Readiness Check](https://bayviewstrategies.ca/readiness) — A free, two-minute self-assessment of how ready a founder is to carry their own file to government. - [Do I Need to Register?](https://bayviewstrategies.ca/registration-check) — A free, two-question lobbying-registration checker for federal, Ontario, and Toronto, cited to the actual statute or regulator bulletin. - [Contact](https://bayviewstrategies.ca/contact) — Email, phone, and a brief form to scope a mandate; replies within one business day.