Manfredi has sent a series of emails to McGill students to suppress peaceful protest. He defends McGill calling the cops on its own students, and he defends the arrest of a protestor while invoking the AGSEM strikes and pro-Palestinian movements to instill fear in all student protestors. He commends McGill security who watched idly while Zionists tried to step on and kick participants lying down at the die-in.Beyond the recent communications, Manfredi is openly transphobic. He has liked a twitter post about “the woke mob” "canceling" Dave Chapelle for transphobic jokes. His values do not align with McGill’s esprit rassembleur that he touts in his email on March 28 - “a place of meeting and exchange for all peoples of the world”. McGill is failing on its mandate to equity and inclusion by allowing a man with hateful views such power. A university with Manfredi as its Provost is not a safe university for queer students.