The opposition is calling on government to implement annual core funding for the Coalition of Persons with Disabilities.

Opposition leader Tony Wakeham says the most recent budget failed to deliver such funding to the organization, jeopardizing its future.

Wakeham says it’s bad enough that government has yet to appoint a disabilities advocate, but now the organization is at risk of shutting down due to a lack of money after being in operation for 44 years.

COD-NL CEO Nancy Reid is impressing on the newly-chosen Liberal leader to consider very carefully how the disability community, which makes up 30 per cent of the population, is currently being served and how their needs are being heard and met.