On March 29, 2021Statistics Canada published the “Police-reported hate crime in Canada, 2019.” Here are excerpts from the report:
In 2019, police reported 1,946 criminal incidents in Canada that were motivated by hate. Hate crimes accounted for less than 0.1% of the over 2.2 million police-reported crimes in 2019 (excluding traffic offences)…
For the second year in a row there was a decline in the number of police-reported hate crimes motivated by religion, declining from 657 to 608 incidents (-7%). This decrease was due to fewer police-reported crimes motivated by hate against the Jewish population, which declined from 372 incidents to 296 incidents in 2019 (-20%). Hate crimes against the Muslim population rose slightly in 2019, from 166 to 181 incidents (+9%).
Hate crimes targeting the Black and Jewish populations remained the most common types of hate crimes, representing 18% and 16% of all hate crimes, respectively. As well, hate crimes targeting sexual orientation accounted for 14% of all hate crimes…
Nationally, there were more police-reported hate crimes targeting race or ethnicity (+10%), specifically the Arab or West Asian population (+38%) and the Black population (+14%), as well an increase in crimes targeting sexual orientation (+41%). In 2019, while there were fewer police-reported hate crimes targeting religion (-7%), including the Jewish population (-20%), those targeting the Muslim population rose (+9%). Hate crimes targeting the Black population accounted for 18% of hate crimes in 2019, while those targeting the Jewish and Muslim populations accounted for 16% and 10%, respectively.