Perry briefed journalists in October 2019: Studying Hate. 

Barbara Perry is a professor in the faculty of social science and humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, and the director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism. She has published several books, including “Diversity, Crime and Justice in Canada,” “In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crime,” “The Silent Victims: Native American Victims of Hate Crime” and “Policing Race and Place: Under- and Over-enforcement in Indian Country.” Her work has been published in journals representing diverse disciplines: Theoretical Criminology, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Journal of History and Politics, and American Indian Quarterly. Perry has made substantial contributions to scholarship on hate crime in Canada, including work on anti-Muslim violence, hate crime against LGBTQ communities, the community impacts of hate crime and right-wing extremism.