[4] Fraser served as a special legal advisor to the then-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lloyd Axworthy, and made proposals for improved dispute resolution mechanisms for environmental treaty issues with the United States.
[5] The federal government also appointed him an Industrial Inquiry Commissioner in the wake of the 1995 railway strike,[1] which was settled by back-to-work legislation.
[6] Fraser has also acted as a senior adjudicator in the dispute-resolution process set up to resolve claims arising from the Canadian Indian residential school system.
[8] In the Fraser Committee Report, they stated that prostitution was not simply a matter of criminal law, but a complex social problem.
[13] In 2012, John van Dongen, an independent MLA, filed a complaint with the Commissioner's office, alleging that Premier Christy Clark was in a conflict of interest in relation to the sale of BC Rail to Canadian National railway.
After considering the matter over the weekend, Fraser announced that he would not review the complaint and instead would delegate it to the Conflict of Interest Commissioner for the Northwest Territories, Gerald Gerrand, QC.
David Eby, a New Democratic Party MLA, filed a complaint of conflict of interest with the Commissioner, as did Duff Conacher of Democracy Watch.
[16] Eby stated that he did not think when he filed the complaint that Fraser was in a personal conflict because of his son's connection with the Premier, but after the report came out he was reviewing that point.
[17][18] The former Commissioner had been appointed the Deputy Attorney General of British Columbia, and a severe backlog had developed while the position was vacant.
[19] During his time in office, he testified before a legislative committee which was reviewing British Columbia's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Fraser also reminded the committee that he had pushed for freedom of information legislation back in 1976, as president of the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association.
[21] During his term as president of the British Columbia Branch, he pressed the provincial government to enact freedom of information and protection of privacy legislation, which would have been the first in Canada.
[20] Fraser was national president when the federal government appointed Bertha Wilson, the first woman justice of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1982.
Speaking on behalf of the CBA, Fraser said he welcomed the appointment for two reasons: "First and foremost, as a lawyer and a judge her Ladyship has demonstrated her worthiness to sit on the highest court in Canada.
[29] Fraser and ten other past-presidents of the CBA then wrote an open letter to The Globe and Mail, criticising the Prime Minister's conduct.
In 2015, Fraser was one of seventeen past-presidents of the Canadian Bar Association wrote an open letter to the Globe and Mail, criticising plans to locate a proposed Memorial to the Victims of Communism immediately adjacent to the Supreme Court of Canada.
[3][34] Fraser was also the president of the Canadian Section of the International Commission of Jurists, an organization dedicated to preserving the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary and human rights around the world.