James Bay Community Project

The James Bay Community Project BCP is a non-profit agency providing services and support, not only to the James Bay community but more widely in Victoria. It provides services for seniors, families, parents and children, and youth. The Covid pandemic hit our operations last year, but JBCP is bouncing back and hoping that further reopening will allow us to return to all the services we are providing and our clients enjoy. JBCP has benefited from support from Rotary Harbourside, for which we are very grateful. One of its aims is to keep people from falling through the cracks and to keep seniors out of institutional care as much as possible.

Dr. Phil Calvert is a Senior Fellow with the Institute of Asian Research at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia. He is Canada’s former ambassador to Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. He served for 34 years in Canada’s foreign service, with 3 assignments to Beijing, the last one as Deputy Head of Mission. At Global Affairs he served as Director General for North Asia, Director of the Technical Barriers to Trade Division, and Deputy Chief Negotiator for Canada during China’s accession to the WTO. He is a Senior Fellow at the University of Alberta’s China Institute, and an Associate at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives at the University of Victoria. Raised in Prince George, BC, and studied at UBC, York University in Toronto, and the University of Washington.