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tuition. A second proposal was for the JIBC’s courses to be offered to corpo-
rate clients, as every major business needs to train its employees, often many
times in a career. By the early 2000s, the Institute was selling its courses and
programs to 4,711 organizations, with private business-consulting making
up nearly half of the income and rising.

Goble spent twenty-four years with the Institute and was a leader
in the board’s oversight of the design and construction process at the New
Westminster campus. He and Bob Stewart represented the JIBC Board of
Governors—acting as the clients—on the main campus building-project
team. So Goble came to think of himself as “someone who had been given
the opportunity to work in an atmosphere of constant change and positive
growth. It was really fun and exciting as we became stronger and better in
the justice field around the world”

For nearly twenty of the JIBC’s thirty years of service, the Institute
was housed in two-storey concrete barrack blocks built to last only as long
as it took to bring a close to the Second World War. Sited along the West
Fourth Avenue escarpment in Vancouver, the uppermost level of Jericho
overlooks one of the world’s great panoramas of mountains, water and
urban concentration. That part of the barracks had emerged, in time, as
the Jericho Hill School for the Deaf and the Blind. In the spring of 1978, it
became the home of the Justice Institute, a role for which the buildings were
less and less suited as the JIBC grew.

In May 1995, the Institute moved from Jericho to its $30-million
complex in the city of New Westminster, a significant location in what was
once briefly the first capital of the new British Columbia (Victoria soon
became the home of government) and today is at the geographical centre of
the Lower Mainland. The Institute now unites several public service profes-
sions under one roof. The rationale for bringing them together in these
facilities was built on the natural links between justice and public safety
agencies and the cost savings by consolidating instructional facilities and
human resources.

Visiting the Justice Institute’s main campus, you might see small
gatherings of five or six adults, maybe a dozen or so groups in all, scattered
over the open spaces around the grounds. Some people gather on the lawn.
Others stand on the concrete or tile paths that connect the parking lots to
grand doorways that open into the bright glass-roofed atrium of the only
school of its kind in the world. A few are clad in bulletproof vests, but most
are wearing either police uniforms or casual sunny-weather clothing.

As much as visitors wonder about these scenarios, their focus is
drawn to the backdrop of the spectacular semicircular architectural show-
case that wraps itself partway around the greensward and walkways. There
are five separate buildings in the complex, the biggest being the horseshoe-
shaped one. Eight divisions instruct their students in the basics of their

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