Players and Timeline
This study is based on interviews with nine movement builders who contributed to creating the 2019 climate “movement moment” in Montreal.
Albert Lalonde: founding member of PLF (and later la CEVES), was a high school student at the time.
Ashley Torres: university student, founding member of LPSU (and later la CEVES).
Eric St-Pierre: Executive director of Trottier Family Foundation.
François Geoffroy: CEGEP professor and founding member of LPSP.
Isabelle L’Héritier: mobilisation campaigner at Greenpeace Canada, in the Montreal office.
Julie Roy: Responsable de l’engagement citoyen or head of citizen engagement at DSF, in the Montreal office.
Kijatâi-Alexandra Veillette-Cheezo: youth from Anishinabek Nation, one of the participants in the cohort of 15 Indigenous youth and 15 settler youth that led the September 27 protest.
Louis Couillard: university student, founding member of LSPU (and later la CEVES)
Patrick Rondeau: Conseiller syndical - Environnement et Transition juste or “Union advisor - environment and just transition” and member of the coalition that organized September 27.