Given our focus on transparency and accountability as a government, and given that in the riding, as I said, people have been telling me that the more transparency the better, with that in mind, in anticipation of my position coming up for a private member's bill, I wanted to do something that would enhance the transparency of government in one fashion or another. In my readings, I came across that these agents, these nine specific agencies of Parliament, all of whom must take an oath to be non-partisan.... I thought it would be just another higher level of transparency and better for the Canadian people to have more enhanced information, more enhanced exposure, and allow members of Parliament also to have that added level of confidence that, when they're being investigated, they are being investigated by people who are non-partisan. It's very, very important.
Given the import that I placed on this, I thought this would make a good private member's bill. Therefore, I began to pursue it.