There were a few different things, Brendan. I appreciate the question.
First, I came to this idea really out of a lot of work with the climate accountability law. I think that is a really important piece of legislation. The U.K. had legislation like that in 2006 and really led the way. We've more recently caught up to that. I think it's a really important framework to have in place to ensure that, with an existential threat like climate change, we have ongoing accountability, no matter the government. Whether it's a future Conservative government, it doesn't matter. We have a piece of legislation in place that says the government has to continue to table plans and maintain progress reports. We can see whether action is sufficient or insufficient in clearer terms.
Similarly, with an existential threat like a pandemic, especially having gone through one, I wondered whether we needed similar architecture. I pitched it at one point, I think even into the 2021 platform process, and it didn't come to fruition. When I won the private members' bills lottery again, it seemed like a good place to start.
My experience with private members' business has not always been that they become law, when one considers the specific process of a private member's bill through the very arcane process that we live through as individual legislators, but oftentimes they do get picked up by governments. In a perfect world, a bill like this with an architecture like this would be picked up by the government and be part of government legislation.