That's a good question so I can help you out with that.
That decision obviously wasn't made in isolation, as I said. As I wrestled with what I saw to be the timeframe left—and let's be honest here; we're coming up to June and it's not likely the House is going to resume after that—I wanted to be a realist about the time I had. That was something I had to juggle on my own and determine whether or not I thought it was going to get through all the stages in the House and all the stages in the Senate.
As I said earlier, I just wasn't going to be prepared with a symbolic victory run to the end and to say, “Yay, we got it this far. We can feel relieved”. I was going to be satisfied with it passing in absolute terms, or I wanted to leverage up and find a different win.
I didn't make that decision in a vacuum. I didn't make that decision by myself. I spent a lot of time speaking with the key people who have been involved in this with me: folks at FASSY; Rod Snow and Heather McFadden with the Canadian Bar Association, who have been deeply invested in this for a long time; CanFASD; FASD Prevention; family members who had reached out to me; and local first nations experts who were right here in Ottawa within the week that I was trying to finalize the reality of this.