Need an expert? Convoy's impact on future protest (BLM, BIPOC, Indigenous groups)

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Members of the media may directly contact the following experts:

Joao Velloso (English and French)

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law – Common Law Section

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Professor Velloso has expertise in the policing of protesters and mass events and is currently on-the-ground in Ottawa conducting research and field work, plus media and social media analysis, of the protest in Ottawa.


Diana Cissé (French only)

Part-time professor, Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Professor Cissé’s research and expertise include social movements, protest movements and decolonializing theories:

“I don’t foresee the Ottawa convoy leading to many changes in the actions employed by environmental, social, territorial and racial protest movements. These movements don’t possess the same material resources – like using commercial trucks to paralyze a city – as the convoy did, nor the strategic or financial resources neither.

“What the situation in Ottawa and the “freedom convoy” showed was a clear double standard in police response in the face of protest movements. Actions in Ottawa demonstrate a lack of equal treatment when it comes to the right to protest.”


Veldon Coburn (English only)

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts - Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies

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“It is clear there is a distinct divergence in the policing of protests between the convoy and Indigenous peoples. I expect policing Indigenous people will continue to be disproportionately coercive."