Table 2
Police-reported hate crimes, by type of motivation, province or territory, 2017 and 2018
| 2017 – Race or ethnicity | 2018 – Race or ethnicity | 2017 – Religion | 2018 – Religion | 2017 – Sexual orientation | 2018 – Sexual orientation | 2017 – Other motivation1 | 2018 – Other motivation1 | 2017 – Total | 2018 – Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | number | number | number | number | number | number | number | number | number | |
| Canada | 878 | 780 | 842 | 639 | 204 | 173 | 117 | 171 | 2,073 | 1,798 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Prince Edward Island | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Nova Scotia | 10 | 21 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 33 |
| New Brunswick | 9 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 16 |
| Quebec2 | 145 | 149 | 226 | 158 | 42 | 29 | 52 | 95 | 489 | 453 |
| Ontario | 428 | 331 | 437 | 301 | 114 | 79 | 40 | 42 | 1,023 | 762 |
| Manitoba | 23 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 40 |
| Saskatchewan | 13 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 30 |
| Alberta | 124 | 104 | 48 | 81 | 16 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 192 | 207 |
| British Columbia | 116 | 122 | 103 | 69 | 18 | 32 | 14 | 22 | 255 | 248 |
| Yukon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Northwest Territories | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Nunavut | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Note(s):
Information in this table reflects data reported by police services covering 99.95% of the population of Canada. Total includes hate crimes where the motivation was unknown.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (3302).
Table note 1
Includes mental or physical disability, language, sex, age, and other similar factors (e.g., occupation or political beliefs).
Table note 2
Note that the Service de police de la Ville de Québec (SPVQ) identified an overcount in the hate crime data originally submitted to Statistics Canada for 2018. The SPVQ has committed to providing a revised count that will be published by Statistics Canada in July 2020 with the release of 2019 and revised 2018 crime statistics. This overcount mitigated the year-over-year decrease in hate crime reported in the province of Quebec in 2018.
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