Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my statement today has to deal with the announcement that Mr. Miltenberger announced yesterday in terms of Disability Awareness Week. I’d like to say that I fully support the initiative that the Minister has taken this government in terms of creating awareness for people in the Northwest Territories during this week to June the 3rd, the theme for living, working, and staying together, including people with disabilities.

Mr. Speaker, this issue here is very close to my heart as my grandfather was disabled in a wheelchair. I’d like to ask this government here, in terms of when will this government look at the Sahtu region and consider funding sources for disability to help set up our region for people with disabilities? He did mention several communities and I was quite upset yesterday in terms of the communities of my region I work with. I know they’ve been asking me for funding to work with the disabilities and help people in this special need in their life and that this government does fail to recognize that. Maybe because we don’t have a road or maybe because we don’t have the connection to the rest of the Northwest Territories, as the other residents, we’re left out of this here. So just shame on this government to recognize this and not include the people in the Sahtu. It’s almost like the Sahtu people who are in the special fields should boycott the disability week and not have anything to do with this special whole week for people with disabilities. We’re shut out the door on this and really that’s caused a disability for our people in the region. There are some good people here who have disabilities and do the job and make a contribution to the community and we’re not taking them into consideration. There are other communities who have it and there’s also other communities that would, with healthy people, and this funding is for three years. We’re shut out of this funding for three years by people. So why bother?

I certainly won’t share the much enthusiasm with the Minister during this week in terms of the awareness week, so I wanted to say that. Thank you.