An initiative launching today aims to make disability issues, a priority in the upcoming provincial election. 

Disability Matters: Vote 2016 is a joint community initiative of Abilities Manitoba and Barrier-Free Manitoba.

Brenda Davidson with Society for Manitobans with Disabilities says there’s a number of goals the non-partisan initiative has:

"Number one to ensure that all Manitobans with disabilities can participate fully in the election activities, number two is to promote priority attention for disability issues in the elections, and number three to support Manitobans with disabilities to make informed voting decisions".

The initative launches today, which fittingly is also the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Davidson says they will be live-streaming the launch from Winnipeg at the Juniper Centre from 11am-1pm.