Thank you, Ms. Pauzé.
Good evening, Commissioner.
I want to focus on law and quickly look at whether the way we structured Bill C-12 and the Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act is part of the problem. This goes back to Taylor's point about timelines. If this is outside of anything you've studied, just stop me cold.
There are about 60 countries around the world with climate accountability acts. The most successful, I would say, was probably the first, which was the U.K. It brought in a climate accountability act in 2008, and its first milestone year was five years later, in 2013. There are milestone years that are the same thing—five years from bringing it in. New Zealand's was five years from bringing it in. Ireland's was five years from bringing it in. It was the same for Germany. I think Canada is the only country around the world that put its first milestone year so far out from when the legislation was brought in.
Again, to the political horizon question, has your office or has anyone on your team looked at this as a fundamental problem with our accountability, in that we deliberately and politically put the first test of accountability far away from the political decision-makers who passed the law?