Well, I would say that being new at this private member's bill business, I took what was typically recommended in other similar bills.
That said, the idea is that you're going to start down a path of implementing palliative care and you need to check back every so often. Does the mechanism have to be legislative? No, it doesn't, but if it's not, sometimes governments come and go and they slash Statistics Canada or whoever is collecting the information, and then you lose information and you lose your benchmark. It was an attempt to see that this is in place.
As with everything, I think it's important to move forward, so I'm flexible to change if there's a different suggestion.