was the only one of the JIBC founders who was in power the entire period
from the concept's origins to its move into the former Jericho army base on
west-side Vancouver.

Dr. Pat McGezeEr qualifies as a founder because, as B.C’s Minister
of Education, he introduced and oversaw passage of the legislation that
authorized the Justice Institute and other post-secondary educational insti-
tutions, with the 1978 College and Institute Act. “Accent on job skills” was
the headline on The Province newspaper's report of McGeer’s announce-
ment on July 14, 1977, of what he called radical changes that “are necessary
to ensure students have marketable skills when they leave school...radical
changes in the education system are necessary to ensure students a better
chance at getting a job” One way to get post-secondary students back to
school was to offer jobs in the courts and corrections systems that were,
at the time, so hopelessly behind schedule that remanded accused were
languishing too long in prison. McGeer’s Ministry of Education and Vickers’

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