Table 3 
Police-reported hate crimes, by most serious violation, Canada, 2019 and 2020 

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Police-reported hate crimes, by most serious violation, Canada, 2019 and 2020
2019 – Race or ethnicity2020 – Race or ethnicity2019 – Religion2020 – Religion2019 – Sexual orientation2020 – Sexual orientation2019 – Other motivation12020 – Other motivation12019 – Total2020 – Total
  numbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumbernumber
Total 884 1,594 613 515 265 259 150 189 1,951 2,669
Non-violent violations 422 845 447 414 123 108 68 100 1,086 1,526
Mischief in relation to property used primarily for worship or by an identifiable group2 14 42 81 99 3 11 5 3 108 159
General mischief3 315 583 295 268 105 72 47 72 770 1,021
Advocating genocide2 5 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 9 5
Public incitement of hatred2 32 62 40 15 2 7 6 12 90 111
Other non-violent violations4 56 154 28 31 13 18 9 13 109 230
Violent violations 462 749 166 101 142 151 82 89 865 1,143
Total assault 254 386 55 33 63 68 24 25 398 526
Common assault (Level 1)5 184 257 44 27 46 48 16 19 292 358
Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (Level 2) and aggravated assault (Level 3)5 70 129 11 6 17 20 8 6 106 168
Uttering threats  128 198 73 38 49 32 33 31 294 325
Criminal harassment 34 64 14 13 11 18 8 14 67 114
Other violent violations6 46 101 24 17 19 33 17 19 106 178
Note(s):
Hate crime counts from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey include both confirmed and suspected hate crime incidents. Information in this table reflects data reported by police services covering 99.7% of the population of Canada. The total includes incidents in which hate motivation was unknown.
Source(s):
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 or gender, age, and other similar factors (e.g., occupation or political beliefs).

Table note 2

These offences are by definition hate crimes. The other listed offences are general Criminal Code offences, such as assault and uttering threats, motivated by hate.

Table note 3

General mischief includes all mischief-related violations except for mischief in relation to property used primarily for worship or by an identifiable group, which is captured separately.

Table note 4

Other non-violent offences include crimes against property (e.g., breaking and entering) or other non-violent criminal violations (e.g., disturbing the peace).

Table note 5

Includes assaults against public peace officers.

Table note 6

Other violent offences include other crimes against persons involving violence or threat of violence such as homicide, attempted murder, robbery, indecent or harassing communications, other assaults and some traffic offences.
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