(a) may suspend or terminate membership of a member for just cause;
(b) may act notwithstanding a vacancy in its membership;
(c) subject to by-laws made by the federation in general meeting, may make those rules and regulations that they consider necessary for carrying out the objects of the federation and for better defining the duties of its officers and its directors and agents, employees and committees and may alter, amend or repeal the rules and regulations;
(d) shall consider all applications for membership and shall have authority to accept or reject them and otherwise to specify the category of membership;
(e) may appoint an executive secretary as provided for by section 11;
(f) may establish those standing committees or special committees that in its sole discretion it considers advisable and may delegate to the committees those of its powers, duties and functions that it shall consider necessary, and the board shall specify the terms of reference for the committee, provided that membership on the committee shall not be restricted to the members of the board;
(g) is authorized and empowered to delegate to the president or to a committee of the board those of its powers, duties and functions that in its sole discretion it shall decide, for purposes of the management of the business and the affairs of the board between meetings of the board;
(h) may determine who shall be entitled to exercise the borrowing powers of the federation and sign and execute, on the federation's behalf, bonds, debentures, mortgages, and all other similar securities, bills, notes, receipts, acceptances, assignments, transfers and hypothecations;
(i) may purchase or otherwise acquire on behalf of the federation property rights or things which the federation may purchase or acquire;
(j) may appoint, remove or suspend the employees of the federation and direct and control them and fix and pay their remuneration;
(k) may enter into negotiations and agreements or contracts in relation to the business of the federation, preliminary, conditional or final and carry out, give effect to, modify, vary or rescind them;
(l) may appoint agents and attorneys for the federation in the province and elsewhere with those powers that may be thought appropriate;
(m) may pay a pension, gratuity or compensation to an employee of the federation or his or her surviving spouse or children that may appear to be just whether the employee, surviving spouse or children have or have not a legal claim upon the federation and to establish benefit funds for and insure the lives of the employees of the federation;
(n) may give receipts, releases and discharges on behalf of the federation;
(o) may deal, invest and with the money of the federation not immediately required for the purpose of its affairs in and upon the shares, securities and investments that they may think appropriate and vary the investments or realize the amount invested; and
(p) may at their discretion raise or borrow or secure the payment of a sum of money for the purposes of the federation and raise or secure the repayment of the money in the manner and upon the terms and conditions in all respects that they think appropriate and in particular by giving mortgages upon or by the issue of debenture, bonds, or other securities charged upon all or a part of the undertaking, properties and rights of the federation both present and future, or by making, accepting, endorsing or executing promissory notes, bills of exchange, or hypothecation.