About Bayview Strategies
We get you ready for the room where the file is decided.
A boutique practice that prepares founders to carry their own files across federal, provincial, and municipal government: innovation programmes, procurement, regulatory submissions, and applied-technology advisory. One principal does the work himself, from first call to decision.
The principal you hire prepares you to carry the file yourself.
Bayview runs as a focused boutique. There’s no junior delegation and no overhead pushing us toward generality. The judgment you assess on a scoping call is the judgment that prepares you.
We teach you the language the decision is written in: Treasury Board submissions, PSPC procurement, the Defence Procurement Strategy, and the matching provincial and municipal machinery. We name the body that signs off — a federal department, a provincial ministry, a city hall — and ready you for it.
Gurkamal Dhahan
Principal & Founder
Gurkamal Dhahan has worked the federal, provincial, and municipal sides of policy. He is Director of Government Relations and Partnerships at Mitacs, and served as Senior Policy Advisor on Innovation and Technology to the Ontario Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, with earlier roles across the Ontario Public Service and municipal government.
He holds a Master of Public Policy, Administration and Law (MPPAL) and a Bachelor of Public Administration (Specialized Honours), both from York University, and is a graduate of the Ontario Legislature Internship Programme.
Four rules we don’t bend.
Read the file first
We form a view after we know your mandate, the constraints, and who signs off — not before.
You stay the face
Politicians and public servants can tell when they're hearing from a hired voice, so you stay the person in the room. We build the strategy and ready you to make the case. The principal does that work himself, no junior delegation, and you own the relationship.
Right order of government
Federal, provincial, and municipal each decide differently. We name the body that signs off — Treasury Board, PSPC, a provincial ministry, a city hall — and prepare you for it.
Through the decision
We stay on the file with you until it clears the gate, not until the invoice clears.
Tell us about the mandate.
A 30-minute scoping call with the principal. We’ll tell you honestly whether we can get you ready to move the file.