It's not only that. The bill does ask for a report—I've mentioned that—and a review, but the the core accountability architecture here addresses the primary concern you're raising, which is that it's not enough and it wasn't enough to say, “PHAC, here are your obligations. Prepare us for the next pandemic.”
PHAC has a number of responsibilities. Who is the individual person in PHAC who is responsible for coordinating pandemic prevention and preparedness? Someone needs that core accountability, and this legislation sets that down.
It requires the government to table a plan to Parliament. When you ask PHAC for a plan, and they say, “We have a plan; don't worry about it”, that's insufficient. We as the public have just lived through something we never thought we were going to live through and we never want to live through again. We'd better have ongoing accountability from not just this government but all future governments to ensure this never falls off the table and that there's ongoing accountability to Parliament.