I am the executive director at the national level, so I run our national headquarters on behalf of the elected officers. Within the organization, if you want to take an inverse military relationship, branches are on top, and they decide how our policy is going to happen down at the bottom, at my level, at the national level.
We have over 1,440 branches across the country, in the States, with one in Mexico and one in Europe as well. In the country we have 10 provincial commands, as we call them, and they're paired with the territories as well. We have B.C.-Yukon, Alberta-Northwest Territories, and we have Nova Scotia-Nunavut. Those commands represent, within their areas of responsibility, the branches they have.
There are just over 275,000 members in the organization now, not all military. The majority of our members are actually military families—people who have the fathers or the uncles who have served in the military. We call ourselves a military family by and large.
When those branches operate, they respond to their provincial level, and then the provincial presidents form part of our national executive council. The council sits twice a year, in between conventions, which happen every two years. The council is really the governing body in between conventions, with the convention being our overarching governing body when it meets every two years.
That's the structure of the organization.
