The Ontario Law Society’s leadership election this year had a slate of candidates called FullStop campaigning against “woke” policies. The election results were announced May 1, and the FullStop slate lost to the opposing Good Governance Coalition.
Good Governance candidates took all 40 of the seats. In the last election, in 2019, the FullStop slate had won 22 of the 40 seats.
Despite their defeat this year, the FullStop team says they received more votes than in 2019. “Congratulations to the new benchers,” FullStop wrote on Twitter. “To our voters: thank you for your support. In spite of nasty messaging, more of the profession voted for us than in 2019. Keep your civic engagement high—these pushback efforts are critically important, even if individual battles are lost.”…