Thank you.
Maybe Dr. Ellis could turn off his mike before he makes snide comments.
My point of order is this: The issue that we're debating is the purpose of the act, which says, “The purpose of this Act is to prevent the risk of and prepare for future pandemics and to promote transparency and accountability”, and the Conservative motion—which was moved, unironically, by the Conservatives and by Dr. Ellis—is simply to change the words “to prevent the risk of” to “to reduce as much as possible the risk of”.
As you said at the beginning of this, Mr. Chair, when moving a motion to amend the bill, we are to speak briefly about the amendment. What Dr. Ellis is doing is meandering through all sorts of completely unrelated subjects, including the economy, when the only purpose of his own amendment is to change the words “to prevent the risk of” to “to reduce as much of possible the risk of”. If he wanted to talk about these other subjects, it was entirely open to him to amend the purpose of the act to talk about the economy and all sorts of other things. He did not do that.
My point of order is that I would call on him to speak to his amendment and restrict his comments to the reasoning for his amendment—and any facts relating to that—instead of the meandering subject of the pandemic in general.