While initially from the Greater Montreal area, Baylis spent part of his youth living in Toronto before attending university.
[16] From 1990 onwards, the company evolved from a distributor to a developer, manufacturer, and seller of proprietary medical devices[18] with a focus on interventional cardiology and pain management.
[26] Scrutiny by the media and opposition parties within the Canadian Federal Government raised questions about conflict of interest in granting the contract to a consortium that subcontracted much of the work involved to a company co-owned by a former member of parliament.
[27][28][29][30][31] On November 27, 2020, the case was discussed by the House of Commons of Canada Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, and the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner found that: "As a former member of Parliament, [Mr. Baylis] is no longer subject to the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons" and that "the contract was not concluded with him.
[36] Concerning the sale, The Globe and Mail reported that "Mr. Baylis, the company's executive chairman, and Kris Shah, its president, co-own the debt-free enterprise, which has never raised outside equity.
It's the third time their Montreal-based business has sold a division to a major U.S. company, making them arguably Canada's most successful medical device entrepreneurs.
More recently he is the executive producer of Undocumented (Sin papeles), another Righteous Pictures feature film (drama-social) in post-production (as of 2023).
It tells the story of an undocumented activist from Mexico who finds that living conditions in America for persons like him are worse than those he fled from back home.
[50] In May 2024, Righteous Films with Baylis as an associate producer released a documentary that streamed on CBC Gem called My Friend Omar: The Battle of a Seasonal Worker.
Baylis was a candidate in the 2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, upon the resignation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.