I have a point of order, Mr. Chair.
We have well-established rules in the House and in committee about parliamentary language. I said no such thing. I did not set myself up to be the self-appointed arbiter of anything. Those are not words in my mouth. That's an insulting tack and, very frankly, beneath the honourable member. I'd ask him to retract that.
Once again, he continues to speak beyond the purpose of his amendment. Frankly, if the Conservatives wanted to redraft the purpose to deal with the issues they're raising, they well could have. They did not. The narrow amendment before us.... What I'm trying to listen to here is why preventing “the risk of” a pandemic is different from reducing “as much as possible the risk of”. That is the amendment my honourable colleague put before us. He could have put all sorts of other things that he seems to want to talk about in the purpose, but he didn't ground those speaking points in an amendment. That's what he's not permitted to do.
I would ask that we cease the personal shots. How a Liberal-NDP coalition, which frankly is actually incorrect—there is no Liberal-NDP coalition—would possibly be relevant in preventing the risk of a pandemic versus reducing the risk of a pandemic is utterly beyond any right-thinking person. Clearly, the Conservatives are trying to filibuster this meeting. If we want to talk about good faith and bad faith—