Table 4
Police-reported hate crimes, by type of motivation, province or territory, 2018 to 2020


Table 4
Police-reported hate crimes, by type of motivation, province or territory, 2018 to 2020
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, 2018, 2019 and 2020, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Province or territory Race or ethnicity Religion Sexual orientation Other motivationTable 4 Note 1 Total
2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020 2018 2019 2020
number
Newfoundland and Labrador 0 0 3 0 0 1 2 1 4 0 2 0 2 6 8
Prince Edward Island 2 4 4 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 1 2 8 7
Nova Scotia 21 20 41 10 5 7 1 4 4 0 3 2 32 32 55
New Brunswick 8 11 7 3 8 5 3 9 3 1 2 3 15 30 19
Quebec 131 157 204 139 137 89 27 29 35 70 61 91 379 399 485
Ontario 346 376 697 326 312 290 83 119 115 47 32 41 807 848 1,164
Manitoba 23 28 30 11 22 15 6 4 6 2 1 4 42 55 55
Saskatchewan 17 15 28 7 9 9 4 7 10 2 1 3 30 33 53
Alberta 119 106 211 86 53 30 21 36 39 15 12 11 245 207 291
British Columbia 124 161 357 74 66 69 38 47 40 22 36 33 259 321 519
Yukon 0 1 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4
Northwest Territories 1 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 6 4
Nunavut 1 2 5 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 4 5
Canada 793 884 1,594 657 613 515 186 265 259 159 150 189 1,817 1,951 2,669
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: Hate crime counts from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) 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. 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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