Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, would like to thank the mover and seconder for bringing this motion forward. We've been working with our local disabilities council for a number of years and one of the things that stands out with us, we've talked about our mobility, the mobility of these individuals, and our chairperson has been working and she's indicated that if these individuals don't have mobility it's hard for them to get out, it's hard to go to school, hard to go to work, hard to be sociable.
With the lack of effectiveness that we've had with these plans and implementing any kind of strategy, it's put a situation of the NWT Disabilities Council and our Hay River local one for an example. Without any kind of funding, without any kind of programs out there, these organizations are left to fight, and literally fight over funding from other organizations throughout the Northwest Territories. You would think that the two organizations would be linked directly, but oftentimes they're competing over the same dollars. It's because of the lack of planning that we've done here, the lack of things we've done over the last 10 or 15 years on this issue.
We need to work with the GNWT, with the people for disabilities, with all the councils and all the people throughout the Northwest Territories to improve this situation. Mr. Nadli spoke today about a handivan for Enterprise. In the community of Hay River we had a handivan for a while. They continue to operate it, but now only for a select group of people that they can actually get funding for. We have seniors and we have people with disabilities who don't have access to any kind of handivan right now because the program is specific to our own group of people that are taking programming. It used to be open to seniors, it used to be open to the people of Enterprise and surrounding areas to help out, but because the funding is so tight they don't have the money to operate this handivan. This is one of the factors of us not having a plan in place.
I will vote in favour of this motion. Thank you.