I will answer your first question about broadening the definition.
The existing mandates of the 17 institutions listed in Schedule 3 of the bill are much broader than CSIS's mandate. If only CSIS's definition were used, the existing mandates of the other 16 institutions would not be consistent with the bill's wording.
There are two things to consider with regard to the issue of information. First, there is the information that the other government organizations could send. Second, the 17 institutions listed in Schedule 3 need to have a mandate to gather information.
Such a broad definition is required to allow for maximum flexibility in order to take into account all of the mandates. However, under this bill, the mandate for the gathering of information cannot be broadened because every organization is limited by the powers that it already has in that area. The bill merely authorizes these 17 institutions to share the information in question.