Table 3
Police-reported hate crimes, by type of motivation, province or territory, 2017 to 2019


Table 3
Police-reported hate crimes, by type of motivation, province or territory, 2017 to 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported hate crimes. The information is grouped by Province or territory (appearing as row headers), Race or ethnicity, Religion, Sexual orientation, Other motivation, Total, 2017, 2018 and 2019, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory Race or ethnicity Religion Sexual orientation Other motivationTable 3 Note 1 Total
2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019
number
Newfoundland and Labrador 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 2 2 6
Prince Edward Island 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 2 7
Nova Scotia 10 21 20 8 10 5 1 1 4 2 0 3 21 32 32
New Brunswick 9 8 11 6 3 8 7 3 9 0 1 5 22 15 33
Quebec 145 131 155 226 139 139 42 27 29 52 70 63 489 379 402
Ontario 428 346 378 437 326 311 114 83 118 40 47 34 1,023 807 850
Manitoba 23 23 29 10 11 22 1 6 4 2 2 1 36 42 56
Saskatchewan 13 17 15 4 7 8 1 4 7 2 2 1 20 30 32
Alberta 124 119 106 48 86 52 16 21 37 4 15 11 192 245 207
British Columbia 116 124 153 103 74 62 18 38 45 14 22 32 255 259 308
Yukon 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 3 1 2
Northwest Territories 5 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 5 1 6
Nunavut 3 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 4 2 5
Canada 878 793 876 842 657 608 204 186 263 117 159 152 2,073 1,817 1,946
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Note 1

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

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Note: Information in this table reflects data reported by police services covering 99.7% of the population of Canada. 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.
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