Table 5
Police-reported hate crimes, by most serious violation, Canada, 2015 and 2016

Table 5
Police-reported hate crimes, by most serious violation, Canada, 2015 and 2016
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported hate crimes. The information is grouped by Most serious violation (appearing as row headers), Race or ethnicity, Religion, Sexual orientation, Other, Total, 2015 and 2016, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Most serious violation Race or ethnicity Religion Sexual orientation OtherTable 5 Note 1 Total
2015 2016 2015 2016 2015 2016 2015 2016 2015 2016
number
Non-violent 327 329 339 323 55 49 46 31 785 740
Mischief in relation to religious propertyTable 5 Note 2 1 0 58 61 0 0 0 0 59 61
Other mischief 253 257 228 217 41 36 26 16 561 528
Public incitement of hatred and advocating genocideTable 5 Note 2 19 36 19 14 5 5 7 9 53 68
Other non-violent offencesTable 5 Note 3 54 36 34 31 9 8 13 6 112 83
Violent 265 270 110 120 78 120 27 44 487 563
Total assault 126 132 27 30 45 66 7 16 206 245
Common assault (Level 1) 84 101 17 20 29 46 6 10 137 178
Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (Level 2) or aggravated assault (Level 3) 42 31 10 10 16 20 1 6 69 67
Uttering threats 75 71 53 43 14 25 9 17 155 163
Criminal harassment 32 26 14 29 11 17 4 5 62 78
Other violent offencesTable 5 Note 4 32 41 16 18 8 12 7 6 64 77
Total 592 599 449 443 133 169 73 75 1,272 1,303
Note 1

Includes mental or physical disability, language, sex and other similar factors (e.g., occupation or political beliefs).

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Note 2

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

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Note 3

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

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Note 4

Other violent offences include other crimes against persons involving violence or threat of violence such as homicide, attempted murder, robbery, harassing telephone calls or other assaults.

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Note: Information in this table reflects data from municipal and provincial police services as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police covering 94% of the Canadian population. As such, this table excludes a small number of police services that did not report to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2.2) Survey for 2015, among which are the municipal police services for Calgary, Québec and Saint John. For 2016, even if the police services of Saint John and Québec reported to the UCR2.2, they were excluded from this table for comparability purposes. However, it does include any counts that occurred within the jurisdiction of police services not reporting to UCR2.2, but that were investigated by other police services that do report, such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police, or the Sûreté du Québec. Numbers may not add up to totals due to rounding. Total includes incidents where hate motivation was unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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