In terms of immediate needs or immediate steps we could take now, when we look at communities like Attawapiskat or Pikangikum, our immediate priority is always to ensure that they have the supports that they need at that moment, whether it's mental health supports, counselling, therapists, or child psychologists to go there and hopefully stabilize the situation on the ground. That's obviously our number one priority, to support our communities that are in crisis now.
In terms of other measures that we can take, I want to ask this committee to work with Minister Philpott and Health Canada on some of the policies we referenced in our presentation, for example, to lift the travel restrictions on non-insured, especially when it comes to children. I'm going to ask my friend, Dr. Kirlew, to expand on that. We need to look at access, especially with our children who are living in remote areas. If we cannot bring that service, that treatment, or whatever it is that they need to their community, we need to bring them out, so that they get it somewhere else.
This speaks to Jordan's principle. There was a private member's bill that Parliament adopted, which is great, but we need to make that into law. We need to move beyond the jurisdictional wrangling that many of our kids and our families find themselves in daily. We need to improve that access now.
I'm going to ask Dr. Kirlew to briefly expand on what I mean by access.