Table 2 
Police-reported hate crimes, by type of motivation, province or territory, 2017 and 2018 

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Police-reported hate crimes, by type of motivation, province or territory, 2017 and 2018
2017 – Race or ethnicity2018 – Race or ethnicity2017 – Religion2018 – Religion2017 – Sexual orientation2018 – Sexual orientation2017 – Other motivation12018 – Other motivation12017 – Total2018 – Total
  numbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumber
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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