I'll just put a finer point on it. If I understood your question correctly, MP Masse, you were asking whether including or not including those other sections in the reference would change the definition of “lawful authority”. The answer is that it would not.
I don't believe the committee right now is debating whether the definition of “lawful authority” would apply, because it would. The issue here is whether you're establishing a circular reference to the lawful authority being found in the act itself. The idea is to separate that.
Our understanding of the OPC's previous advice on this was that proposed section 44 was seen to be a risk, to be something that could be pointed at in a circular reference way, when in fact the idea here is to have a separate reasonable law form the reasonable basis or the lawful authority for the ask, such as the CSIS Act or the Criminal Code or other acts.