As you just pointed out, for someone with a bad back or whatever—I can't remember how your story started—to fix their disability it took a stool. A lot of times, for $500 a business can make their place accessible for someone with a disability. But that's in a good place.
I want to challenge you guys on something. I came up here last May, when we were here for meetings. One of my beautiful stepdaughters lives in Ottawa, and my wife and I decided we were going to take her out for dinner. We went down to the Market, and I was shocked. If you guys walked down to the Market, you'd see that at least half, or 80%, of the restaurants down there are not accessible. You need to go up one or two steps to get into them.
I was in shock because we were in Ottawa, and there was a lack of accessibility in the Market, a place that draws people in. I was just stunned.
If you go to Vancouver, you will see that everywhere it's accessible, every restaurant. A friend and I went out there last year. He's a chef who teaches at the culinary...and he wanted to check out restaurants. He stopped asking after the first night if their restaurants were accessible or not, because they all were.
So a lot of it, in terms of whether your community is accessible or not, has to do with the attitude and the culture in your community. It's not whether there are grants or something out there, but it's the attitude and the culture of the community.
If you want to make Ottawa accessible, you have to change the attitude and the culture of the community. Everybody in the Market has to buy in when it comes to making the Market 100% accessible to everybody who lives here. That's what they did in Vancouver. Everything is 100% accessible for everybody who lives in the community.
It's all about the attitude of the municipality and of the governments in the community.