Directors do not need to follow the bylaws (or member resolutions or board resolutions).

The SA section 53 is worded such that directors may abandon the bylaws should they feel it is in the best interest of the society. This is truly incredible as it is the membership, by special resolution that approved the bylaws to begin with and are the only ones supposed to be authorized to make changes. So why then, on the premise of a few directors who may not have even been elected if they were appointed by other directors to fill a vacancy or at the time of election they attained the position by acclamation.

In law, the making of a choice between two or more options.