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Table 2
Police-reported hate crimes, by most serious violation, Canada, 2017 and 2018

Table 2
Police-reported hate crimes, by most serious violation, Canada, 2017 and 2018
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 motivation, Total, 2017 and 2018, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Most serious violation	Race or ethnicity		Religion		Sexual orientation		Other motivation^{Table 2 Note 1}		Total
	2017	2018	2017	2018	2017	2018	2017	2018	2017	2018
	number
Non-violent	436	342	631	475	92	63	65	79	1,239	978
Mischief in relation to property used primarily for worship or by an identifiable group^{Table 2 Note 2}	1	5	71	96	0	0	0	2	72	103
Other mischief	356	257	428	302	79	48	44	65	913	679
Advocating genocide^{Table 2 Note 2}	0	3	7	2	0	0	0	1	7	7
Public incitement of hatred^{Table 2 Note 2}	34	24	68	33	2	5	11	4	121	72
Other non-violent violations^{Table 2 Note 3}	45	53	57	42	11	10	10	7	126	117
Violent	388	386	195	147	105	102	50	90	755	741
Total assault	180	192	47	36	50	52	19	33	299	318
Common assault (Level 1)^{Table 2 Note 4}	127	135	32	26	36	36	12	20	208	220
Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (Level 2) and aggravated assault (Level 3)^{Table 2 Note 4}	53	57	15	10	14	16	7	13	91	98
Uttering threats	134	121	94	65	28	26	19	31	283	251
Criminal harassment	40	35	31	16	12	8	5	11	91	72
Other violent violations^{Table 2 Note 5}	34	38	23	30	15	16	7	15	82	100
Total	824	728	826	622	197	165	115	169	1,994	1,719
Note 1 Includes mental or physical disability, language, sex, age, and other similar factors (e.g., occupation or political beliefs). Return to note 1 referrer 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. Return to note 2 referrer 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). Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes assaults against public peace officers. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 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. Return to note 5 referrer Note: Information in this table reflects data from municipal and provincial police services as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) covering 96.2% of the Canadian population. As such, this table excludes Saint John and Calgary police services. However, it does include any counts that occurred within the Saint John or Calgary police services’ jurisdiction that were investigated by the RCMP. Total includes incidents where hate motivation was unknown. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.

Date modified:: 2020-02-26