We understand government. Our approach is client-centred and fact-based. We help organizations across a broad spectrum of sectors to achieve public policy goals. We understand what it takes to get your messages heard at Queen’s Park.

Our Principals - Charles Beer, Donald Cousens, Philip Dewan, Charles Harnick and Caroline Pinto - have decades of experience in government, politics, and public affairs. With broad experience and close relationships with leaders in both Liberal and Conservative parties, the senior members of the Counsel team have worked on behalf of corporations, associations and non-profit organizations in virtually every sector of the Ontario economy.

Our experience in government is both from within and without. We have worked in and with the Ontario Public Service, served as political advisors at the highest level, and helped business and NGO’s with government relations.

Whether you are a non-profit organization seeking to raise your profile with government, or a major company dealing with government regulator or policy issues, Counsel Public Affairs delivers the strategy, tools and results you need.

Counsel Public Affairs was formed in November 2004 through the merger of two of Ontario's most successful boutique public affairs companies, the Excelsior Consulting Group Inc. and Suasion Public Affairs Inc.