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Yes, like so many bad ideas, this one comes from a recurring source of them:
🧵 Meet Justice Paul Schabas…
1️⃣ Once LSUC Treasurer (2016-18), he drove the mandatory “Statement of Principles” + the name-change to Law Society of Ontario.
2️⃣ 2019: lawyers revolt. #StopSOP slate wins Convocation & kills his flagship rule in 90 days—just after Schabas is tapped for the Superior Court (11 Apr 2019, via Minister Lametti).
3️⃣ 2025: from the bench he declares tearing out Toronto bike lanes breaches cyclists’ s. 7 Charter rights, blocking Doug Ford’s rollback.
4️⃣ From defeated regulator to Charter-expanding judge in six years. Perseverance—or Canada’s gold-medal in failing upwards? 🥇🚴♂️⚖️ #onpoli #cdnlaw
🧵 Meet Justice Paul Schabas…
1️⃣ Once LSUC Treasurer (2016-18), he drove the mandatory “Statement of Principles” + the name-change to Law Society of Ontario.
2️⃣ 2019: lawyers revolt. #StopSOP slate wins Convocation & kills his flagship rule in 90 days—just after Schabas is tapped for the Superior Court (11 Apr 2019, via Minister Lametti).
3️⃣ 2025: from the bench he declares tearing out Toronto bike lanes breaches cyclists’ s. 7 Charter rights, blocking Doug Ford’s rollback.
4️⃣ From defeated regulator to Charter-expanding judge in six years. Perseverance—or Canada’s gold-medal in failing upwards? 🥇🚴♂️⚖️ #onpoli #cdnlaw
🧵 Meet Justice Paul Schabas…
1️⃣ Once LSUC Treasurer (2016-18), he drove the mandatory “Statement of Principles” + the name-change to Law Society of Ontario.
2️⃣ 2019: lawyers revolt. #StopSOP slate wins Convocation & kills his flagship rule in 90 days—just after Schabas is tapped for the Superior Court (11 Apr 2019, via Minister Lametti).
3️⃣ 2025: from the bench he declares tearing out Toronto bike lanes breaches cyclists’ s. 7 Charter rights, blocking Doug Ford’s rollback.
4️⃣ From defeated regulator to Charter-expanding judge in six years. Perseverance—or Canada’s gold-medal in failing upwards? 🥇🚴♂️⚖️ #onpoli #cdnlaw
This was a tweet I made on May 1, 2019.
At that time, #stopSOP sweeped the Bencher Election.
Four years later, the Good Governance Coalition has sweeped our industry. Grateful for candidates like @nurodrig19, @QuinnMRoss and @atrishalewis whom stepped up to the challenge,
Deeply disappointed by my profession today. It's ironic that, on the same day I've made it into Forbes, I'm reminded blindly that a majority of our profession does not support Diversity and Inclusion. Let me tell you something: I'm young, I'm racialized, and I'm going to change
Holding back🤢when I see lawyers who refuse to shun/call out law firms/lawyers who make💰off of, engage in, abet, gaslight or defend anti-Black racism, running to be benchers on the "Good Governance Coalition" platform.
At least the #STOPSOP group aren't fake.
#BadLegalTakes
I feel 🤢 when I 👀 lawyers running to be a @LawSocietyLSO bencher under the "Good Governance Coalition" when they/their firms have been SILENT about anti-Black racism in @ONgov & they refuse to shun firms/LLBs that abuse Black 🧔🏾♂️👩🏾👶🏾. They're no better than the #StopSOP group.
Today I voted in support of sustainable funding for local law libraries. Unfortunately, the #stopsop slate did not.
@atrishalewis @Mohsen_Seddigh @SABAToronto Very glad to see this. Why does #stopsop keep wasting convocation time on issues like this that really should not be up for debate??
and aren't negatively impacting anyone. I am embarrassed for the profession that these #stopsop'ers continually raise these sorts of issues and have to be beaten back time and again. Surely there are better uses of everybody's time. /2
Reading some of the comments from today’s vote on the #stopsop benchers’ motion has been upsetting. The desire to want people to pronounce one’s name correctly isn’t about being “woke” or lacking “tough skin”, it’s a desire for basic respect. Belittling that desire is offensive.
Thankfully, the #stopsop benchers’ motion to eliminate the professional name reader at calls to the bar (hired so that names can be correctly pronounced) has failed. Thank you @SABAToronto for your very important submission on this important equity issue.
Thankfully, the #stopsop benchers’ motion to eliminate the professional name reader at calls to the bar (hired so that names can be correctly pronounced) has failed. Thank you @SABAToronto for your very important submission on this important equity issue.
Great recap: And as a reminder to the professions, the #stopsop slate was united in opposing a mandatory minimum compensation for articling students.
The webcast of LSO Convocation April 28 is finally available so we're taking names and pointing out some weak arguments made by some Benchers opposed to minimum compensation standards. Let's make this info accessible so buckle up, it's gonna be a long one.
@atrishalewis Remember when #stopsop used to be about compelled speech? Is there a list handy of the Benchers votes?
I wasn’t aware that “free speech” was a synonym for “don’t pay articling students minimum wage.” The #StopSOP slate must be using a special thesaurus.
@atrishalewis It's disgusting that there was organized and almost fifty percent opposition to fair wage for our newest and often youngest lawyers. Shame on #stopsop
They #stopsop slate all vote against paying students a minimum wage. I guess it was all about free speech after all.
Exhibit A as to why Bencher elections matter: I am at the @LawSocietyLSO Convocation (board mtg) today and #StopSOP slate members say publicly that there is no longer a need for our “superfluous” Equity Advisory Group and we should abandon “equity” goals. Vote them out in 2023.
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