Mr. Chair, on a point of order, on Monday Mr. Doherty moved a motion that dealt with harm reduction and diversion, and that was dealt with at that time.
The motion before us today doesn't even mention harm reduction or diversion. It is explicitly referencing housing. I won't bother reading it, but it quotes a study revealing that a lack of housing can influence people's patterns of substance abuse, and it asks the committee to recognize the correlation between homelessness and opioid deaths and how people experiencing homelessness accounted for a certain number of opioid-related deaths. It asked that we call on the government to make access to low-barrier housing a central strategy, a separate....
While the issue of harm reduction may or may not be a valid issue to be debated, that was explicitly the subject of his motion on Monday—not tonight.
I notice that Mr. Doherty is venturing into comments on and references to harm reduction and diversion, which is clearly outside the parameters of this motion. In fact, the proof of that is that it was explicitly the subject of the motion on Monday and is not mentioned at all in this.
I would ask that he be called to confine his remarks to the motion under consideration.