Table 2
Police-reported hate crimes, by most serious violation, Canada, 2013

Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported hate crimes, by most serious violation, Canada, 2013. The information is grouped by Most serious violation (appearing as row headers), Race/ethnicity, Religion, Sexual orientation, Other and Total, calculated using percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Most serious violation Race/ethnicity Religion Sexual orientation OtherNote 1 Total
percent
Non-violent 56 82 34 52 60
Mischief in relation to religious propertyNote 2 0 17 0 0 4
Other mischief 48 55 29 20 45
Public incitement of hatredNote 2 2 4 0 24 4
Other non-violent offencesNote 3 6 7 5 8 6
Violent 44 18 66 48 40
Total assault 25 7 32 22 21
Common assault (Level 1) 19 4 23 14 15
Assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (Level 2) 5 2 8 6 5
Aggravated assault (Level 3) 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded 0 1 2 0sNote: value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
Other assault 1 1 0 0 1
Uttering threats 12 5 18 16 11
Criminal harassment 5 2 11 4 5
Other violent offencesNote 4 2 4 5 6 3
Total 100 100 100 100 100
0s value rounded to 0 (zero) where there is a meaningful distinction between true zero and the value that was rounded
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 or other non-violent criminal violations.

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Note 4.

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

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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 (RCMP) covering 86% of the Canadian population. As such, this table excludes a small number of police services that do not report to the UCR2.2 Survey, among which are the municipal police services for Toronto, Calgary and Quebec. 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. Percentages may not add to 100% 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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