It's because the 17 that are in the schedule of the act need all of their mandates to be encompassed by the act, otherwise the act won't have an effect. It will only have an effect for CSIS if we use the CSIS mandate defined in the CSIS Act in section 2. We needed to make sure that all of the 17 were somehow brought into the proposed security of information sharing act; otherwise, information relevant to national security that undermines the security of Canada cannot be disclosed to them. We're not changing section 2 of the CSIS Act here at all. We're defining examples of the kinds of things that meet the definition of undermining the security of Canada that will allow all 17 to be included in the act and receive information under the act. No collection mandate is being changed here.
On March 31st, 2015. See this statement in context.