I have a point of order, Mr. Chair.
Dr. Ellis is clearly outside the relevance of this issue because the issue of an advisory committee and an inquiry is in the next clause. It's in clause 3 of the bill. If he's read the package, then he knows that the NDP has submitted an amendment to create a public independent inquiry into COVID, and that's exactly the subject of the next clause. He is clearly beyond the scope of clause 2.
I'm going to ask him to confine his comments to the purpose section and to explaining his own amendment, which is a fine point: changing the words “to prevent the risk of” to “to reduce as much as possible the risk of” a pandemic. I'm curious to hear his rationale behind that. In fact, I plan on supporting it.
However, certainly, if he's talking about the—