Most advisory firms study government from the outside. Da-Ré Advisory was founded on first-hand experience at the most senior levels of the Ontario government, by the former Executive Director of Policy to the Premier.
Giancarlo Da-Ré spent his career in the Ontario government’s most consequential files. As Executive Director of Policy to the Premier, he worked across a portfolio spanning public safety, emergency management, justice, critical infrastructure, transportation, housing, and procurement: how the province protects people, and how it decides what gets built.
Before the Premier’s office, he advised the ministers of public safety, transportation, and labour in Canada’s largest province. As Director of Policy and Stakeholder Relations to the Solicitor General, his files included policing, bail reform, public safety technology, and next generation 9-1-1 infrastructure. At Transportation, highway and transit expansion and the capital programs that deliver them. At Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, the skilled trades pipeline and the workforce behind every major build in the province.
Da-Ré Advisory exists because that vantage point is rare. The people navigating high-stakes government decisions, on every side of the table, deserve counsel from someone who has actually held the file.
Every engagement is led by the principal personally. The senior judgment you hire is the senior judgment you get, from first conversation to final call.
Counsel starts from the primary record: budgets, board minutes, council agendas, capital plans, tenders and awards. Recommendations begin from what government has actually decided and published, not from opinion.
Clients receive the honest assessment, including when the evidence points away from the preferred course.
Tell us what you’re navigating. You’ll get an honest read on whether we can help.
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