Registered charity
The Fraser Institute
Legal name on the register: THE FRASER INSTITUTE
CA-E-K2B6-X22BActiveBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver4 independent sources
$16.8MRevenue reported
66On the board
67Organisations connected
3Municipal licences
50Employees reported
4Independent publishers
95/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-K2B6-X22B
- Address
- Suite 2400, 745 Thurlow Street, VANCOUVER, BC, V6E 0C5
- Earliest record
- March 28, 1983
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 119233823RR0001
- Business number
- 119233823
- Corporation number
- 903396
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-132166
- statcan-odbus
- b35491986a597513ebb7
- Vancouver licence
- 4513836
- Vancouver licence
- 4646729
- Vancouver licence
- 4864603
- Vancouver licence no.
- 24-132883
- Vancouver licence no.
- 25-139006
- Vancouver licence no.
- 26-142019
Who controls this corporation. Federal corporations must file their Individuals with Significant Control with Corporations Canada. That register is not redistributed here — it can only be searched by corporation name or number, by design, so it cannot become a lookup by a person’s name. Search it directly for corporation number 903396: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.
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Evidence depth
95/100
Deep recordThis scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.
Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates
Additional graph evidence outside the score: 67 organisation connections · 22 same-address neighbours.
Public footprint · version 1
Where this organisation appears in public records
Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.
Footprint is not performance.
A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.
Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
100
Operationslicences and operating places
45
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
0
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
100
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
69
Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.
Registrations
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 119233823RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) | Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act | 903396 | October 14, 2014 | Active |
Municipal licences (3)
| Place | Category | Number | First issued | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | Consulting and Management Services | 4513836 | January 5, 2024 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Consulting and Management Services | 4646729 | January 7, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Consulting and Management Services | 4864603 | December 15, 2025 | Issued |
A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.
Board and officers on record (66)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacoline Loewen | Director | September 28, 2023 | current |
| Ryan Chambers | Director | May 25, 2023 | current |
| Ronald Mathison | Director | February 23, 2023 | current |
| Nigel Wright | Director | June 29, 2022 | current |
| Marc Beauchamp | Director | April 7, 2022 | current |
| Nuvyn Peters | Director | February 24, 2022 | current |
| Brent Hesje | Director | November 23, 2021 | current |
| Nancy Tower | Director | November 23, 2021 | current |
| Gary Dhaliwal | Director | May 20, 2021 | current |
| Douglas Goss | Director | May 20, 2021 | current |
| Margaret-Jean Mannix | Director | May 20, 2021 | current |
| Brad Wall | Director | May 20, 2021 | current |
| Catherine Swift | Director | February 23, 2021 | current |
| Heather Culbert | Director | November 19, 2020 | current |
| Grant Fagerheim | Director | May 28, 2020 | current |
| Graham Lee | Director | May 28, 2020 | current |
| J. Scott McCain | Director | May 28, 2020 | current |
| John Risley | Director | May 28, 2020 | current |
| David Sutherland | Director | May 28, 2020 | current |
| Brian Baker | Director | September 24, 2019 | current |
| Jill Angevine | Director | August 1, 2019 | current |
| Catherine McLeod-Seltzer | Director | August 1, 2019 | current |
| Mark Scott | Director | May 16, 2019 | current |
| Geoff Cumming | Director | July 25, 2018 | current |
| Donald Wheaton | Director | January 31, 2018 | current |
| Wayne Deans | Director | September 26, 2017 | current |
| Paul Fletcher | Director | November 15, 2016 | current |
| Kenneth Mariash Sr. | Director | November 15, 2016 | current |
| Guy Goodwin | Director | November 24, 2015 | current |
| Brian Kenning | Director | November 24, 2015 | current |
| Craig Langdon | Director | May 29, 2014 | current |
| Pierre Lessard | Director | May 29, 2014 | current |
| Peter Grosskopf | Director | May 22, 2014 | current |
| Tracey McVicar | Director | January 21, 2014 | current |
| Ron Poelzer | Director | January 21, 2014 | current |
| W. Robert Farquharson | Director | May 16, 2013 | current |
| John O'Neill | Director | May 16, 2013 | current |
| Jason Clemens | Secretary Treasurer | August 6, 2012 | current |
| Hassan Khosrowshahi | Director | June 1, 2012 | current |
| H. Sanford Riley | Director | May 12, 2012 | current |
| Niels Veldhuis | Executive President | April 10, 2012 | current |
| Kathy Assayag | Director | June 15, 2011 | current |
| Andrew Judson | Director | November 23, 2010 | current |
| Ryan Beedie | Director | May 6, 2010 | current |
| Brad Bennett | Director | May 6, 2010 | current |
| Anna El-Erian | Director | May 6, 2010 | current |
| George Melville | Director | May 6, 2010 | current |
| Rod Senft | Director | May 6, 2010 | current |
| Arni Thorsteinson | Director | May 6, 2010 | current |
| Jonathan Wener | Director | May 6, 2010 | current |
| Derwood Chase Jr. | Director | June 13, 2008 | current |
| James Davidson | Director | April 29, 2005 | current |
| Shaun Francis | Director | May 12, 2004 | current |
| Brandt Louie | Director | May 10, 1999 | current |
| Gwyn Morgan | Director | May 10, 1999 | current |
| Herb Pinder | Director | April 24, 1999 | current |
| Peter Brown | Director | April 18, 1995 | current |
| Alex Chafuen | Director | March 6, 1992 | current |
| Greg Fleck | Director | March 6, 1992 | current |
| Paul Hill | Director | March 28, 1983 | current |
| Michael Walker | Honourary Member | — | current |
| Christine Cooper | Director | May 20, 2021 | ended June 6, 2024 |
| Ian Telfer | Director | May 16, 2016 | ended June 2, 2022 |
| C. Kent Jespersen | Director | November 23, 2010 | ended June 6, 2024 |
| Salem Al Ismaily | Director | June 13, 2008 | ended May 25, 2023 |
| Eleanor Nicholls | Director | June 13, 2008 | ended June 2, 2022 |
Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.
Organisations sharing a filed director name (67)
2 of them share more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.
Showing the 25 strongest of 67.
One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
At the same address (22)
Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, SUITE 2400 745 THURLOW ST.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| 7076932 Canada INC. CA-E-7G56-YMHR | Federal corporation |
| Cedar Tree Investment Canada Inc. CA-E-JEEH-G6M1 | Federal corporation |
| Concord Pacific Foundation CA-E-4XZC-ZBA7 | Registered charity |
| Ebrisk Video INC. CA-E-XJWC-VB85 | Federal corporation |
| Elemental Energy Development LTD. CA-E-31PM-WH1T | Federal corporation |
| Elk Valley Resources General Partner Ltd. CA-E-F9B3-QZTR | Federal corporation |
| EVR Operations Limited CA-E-HC2V-0PXY | Federal corporation |
| Fraser Institute Foundation CA-E-S6C0-3J91 | Registered charity |
| HSBC Software Development (Canada) Inc. CA-E-KX92-F5GM | Federal corporation |
| One West Holdings Ltd. CA-E-92GF-JV5J | Federal corporation |
| PolarBlue Systems Inc. CA-E-NMDP-YY4H | Federal corporation |
| RB Global, Inc. CA-E-3MX3-2NM2 | Federal corporation |
| Right Coast Wind Corp. CA-E-4YGD-J83X | Federal corporation |
| Skimikin Nursery Limited CA-E-Z7QH-VXGR | Federal corporation |
| The Houssian Foundation CA-E-2FG4-NNXW | Registered charity |
| TimberWest Forest Corp. CA-E-PFES-G8JT | Federal corporation |
| Transmontaigne Canada Holdings INC. CA-E-3X8J-E6AQ | Federal corporation |
| Transmontaigne Marketing Canada INC. CA-E-J2JN-KRS2 | Federal corporation |
| Vancouver Airport Authority CA-E-VTP8-GNM3 | Federal not-for-profit corporation |
| Velofix Group of Companies Ltd. CA-E-HC6N-SBB4 | Federal corporation |
| Westcoast Energy INC. CA-E-PJET-RGA9 | Federal corporation |
| World Bicycle Relief Canada CA-E-DVE9-WJ9J | Registered charity |
A shared door is not always a shared purpose. Sharing an address can mean one organisation with several registered arms, a building a sector clusters in, or simply a landlord. It is a fact about where filings were sent, not a claim about who controls whom.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
What it raised and spent — year ended December 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $16,849,592
- Total spending
- $14,073,967
- Total assets
- $19,286,402
- Total liabilities
- $17,455,276
- Receipted donations
- $2,430,258
- From other charities
- $7,804,020
- Granted onward
- $2,440,000
Charitable programs82.5% · $11.6M · line 5000
Management and administration12.8% · $1.8M · line 5010
Fundraising4.7% · $668K · line 5020
These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
What it does
- Trade
- Consultant · Office
- Licensed as
- Consulting and Management Services
- Industry code
- 54North American Industry Classification System
Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.
Timeline
- Licence first issued — Consulting and Management Services
- Licence first issued — Consulting and Management Services
- Licence first issued — Consulting and Management Services
- Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
Why this is one record
6 public datasets from 4 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.
- Shares business number 119233823asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
- Same name and postal code V6J 3G7asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
- Same name and address — 1770 burrard, vancouver, BCasserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.
Where this record comes from
| Dataset | Last captured | Cadence | Coverage kept | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 2, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 8, 2026 | P1Y | 2 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
| Federal corporations — active not-for-profit, co-operative and boards of trade Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada | October 24, 2026 | P1D | 11 captures · 10 comparisons | due |
| Open Database of Businesses — version 1 Statistics Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada | — | — | — | not measured |
| Vancouver business licences City of Vancouver · Open Government Licence – Vancouver | October 15, 2026 | P1M | 3 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.
This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.
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