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All right. That kind of service, I think, will be helpful to this

College and to other colleges in the Province. I think that there

are so many areas that each of us in our own way are in fact working

in isolation, of necessity. If you people are not getting the kinds

of answers that you, okay, then necessity becomes the mother of invention
and you find ways of doing things your own way if it is at all possible.

I think that the one thing in this whole process, as the organization
develops, the autonomy to do what is right for your area, the tegen,

you are serving, has to always remain at the college. That doesn't

mean that, in fact, if the college comes along and says look, we are

going to do all these things, and it doesn't matter if it costs $10,000,000,
we will just get it...that's not what that means at all. It does mean

that there is no way that I can see our offices saying to you, you should
not be doing this in Nanaimo. If in fact Malaspina College identifies

a course area, program area, across the whole spectrum that the community
colleges are often quite unfairly expected to respond to; if in fact the
college says this we have identified to be good and worthy and noble, and
it should go forth, then I think it is the duty of the college to send

that forth to us. It is our responsibility, then, to respond and say, okay,
we agree with you, but there is no money. That mustn't become a stock
answer for saying "no". In other words, there is a big cop out you know,
these days in society, to say "I don't like him", so everything he stands
for is no good. Of course that is a cop out. Similarly it is a cop out
for us to say if there is some other reason, look there is no money. I
want to assure you that if, in fact, something comes to my attention that

is identified as being in the interest of the college and the interest

of the students and community, and it becomes my job to say, sorry, I agree
with your submission, but it is deferred because there is no money, then

I will explain to you that there is no money, and when I say that, I would
hope that you will believe that is the only reason that something has to

be deferred. The financial demands of the colleges in British Columbia

are such that the amount of money that was going into this sector three
years ago compared to now is multiplied by three. That's not bad. In fact,
that's very good, because it shows the acceptance of the conmunity college and

the services it is rendering for the students and the community. The only