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01 — Field guidesFederal · Provincial · Municipal

Plain answers to how government actually decides.

How a Treasury Board submission gets judged. When you have to register as a lobbyist, and when you don’t. How to be heard at Queen’s Park and city hall. Written to be useful whether or not you ever hire us, and to show you can do more of this yourself than you think.

02 — The guides4 guides
Field guide

How to do your own government relations in Canada, without hiring a lobbyist

Government would rather hear from the person who built the business than a hired lobbyist. The founder's playbook for doing your own GR, inside the rules.

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Field guide

Engaging Queen's Park and city hall: the provincial and municipal playbook

Most provincial and municipal decisions are settled in a draft document before any vote. Where it's written, and how a founder gets heard there.

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Field guide

The Lobbying Act for founders: when you register, and when you don't

Doing your own GR is more credible than hiring a lobbyist — and under the law, a lighter lane. Where the line sits federally, in Ontario, and in Toronto.

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What a Treasury Board submission actually has to do

A Treasury Board submission isn't a pitch for your idea — it's the document that asks the Board for the authority to spend and act. Here's the job it has to do, and the standard it's graded against.

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03 — Start

When the file is real, you don’t have to do it alone.

The guides show you the shape of the work. When a decision actually lands on your desk, we build the case behind you and ready you for the room.

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