Thank you.
I'll give my colleagues across the way the opportunity.... They probably didn't want 15 directors. I understand that.
But I know you want to elect them and you want those folks who belong to the association voluntarily to run their own association. You certainly don't want to belong to an association, have someone else run it for you, and not have the opportunity.
So let's assume that it was 15 you didn't want. We're down to five now. Now we're looking at five being elected. For an association that voluntarily comes together to decide to do what it wants to do, at the very least you ought to allow them the choice of who it is they want to have run them rather than have somebody dictate who will run them, for them. That's what your complaint is about: the folks who were forced to be there against their will.
Now you're asking folks to join a voluntary association and have no mechanism to remove the five by voting. If they don't agree with them, they have no mechanism. I guess they could write a letter to the minister and say they don't agree with what the five have done, but that's the only recourse they have once they join, if they choose to do so.