Government

OVERVIEW

The Government Industry Group has two components. The first provides regulatory affairs and government relations (lobbying) services to clients in the private sector. The second serves governments and government organizations in Canada and around the world. With experience in almost all areas of public policy, Gowlings professionals provide legal advice and consulting services on an extensive range of regulatory and government issues.

Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs: Gowlings has a long and distinguished history of involvement in Canadian public policy, having acted for decades on behalf of governments, private sector interests and public interest organizations on a wide variety of issues.

Gowlings is involved in virtually all areas of government policy, including:

• financial institutions
• food and agriculture
• government procurement of goods and services
• biotech
• telecommunications and e-commerce
• environment, fisheries, energy and natural resources
• industry policy
• health-care reform
• marine, rail, air and surface transportation
• privatization, commercialization, contracting-out and alternative service delivery of government services
• taxation
• foreign investment policy, foreign affairs and immigration
• human resource policy
• international and interprovincial trade
• intellectual property
• public security and safety
• cultural and aboriginal affairs
• justice and law reform
• professional self-regulation
• federal-provincial relations
• a wide variety of local government issues

Government Services: For decades, Gowlings has been an important provider of legal and non-legal strategic and policy advice to Canadian federal, provincial and local governments across a broad range of issue areas. More recently, Gowlings has provided strategic and policy advice to countries and governments around the world.

Services include:

• Public Policy Research, Analysis and Development
• Public Consultations, Facilitation and Consensus Building
• Dispute Resolution
• Second Opinions, Assessments and Evaluations
• Comprehensive Strategic Advice
• Training and Professional Development, Design and Delivery
• Overseas Legal, Judicial and Policy Reform

For further information, please contact:

National Group Leader
Henry S. Brown Q.C.
henry.brown@gowlings.com
(613) 786-0139