As the founding national Performing Arts Lodges of Canada evolved, it became a more complex entity. A decade after PAL Place in Toronto opened, it was deemed it could best serve its community by becoming a corporate umbrella organization with autonomous regional offshoots. PAL Toronto retained PAL's original charitable registration number and emerging PAL entities have applied for or obtained their own charitable status.

PAL is endorsed by the four major performers' associations in Canada whose representatives sit on the board of PAL Canada - the Actors' Fund of Canada, the Alliance of Canadian, Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA), the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) and the Canadian Actors' Equity Association.

Visit PAL Canada at www.palcanada.org.