Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to direct a question to the Minister responsible for motor vehicles. Mr. Speaker, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind informs me that there is about seven individuals in the Northwest Territories who are classified as legally blind due to the scarring of the cornea, that's the front part of the eye that lets the light in. It is easily corrected by a transplant.
Sometime ago, Mr. Speaker, I had asked this government if it would be able to have an organ donor's card attached to a drivers license, so this vital part of the human anatomy could be salvaged in case of an accident and transplanted. My information is that the technology is rather simple, it is just that they need permission to get the particular organs. One of the best places to carry permission for organ transplants in on the drivers license because a lot of the accidents that occur and that provide useable parts, are motor vehicle accidents.
I would like to ask the Minister of Transportation whether or not Motor Vehicles, under his department, would consider changing the back of the drivers license from what is presently there now to an organ donor card that can be signed by an individual who chooses to participate in that program. At the time they issue this license, they can carry it with them at all times.