Table 3
Police-reported hate crime by type of motivation among the nine largest census metropolitan areas (CMA), 2006

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  Race/ethnicity Religion Sexual orientation Other1 Unknown Total
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent number rate2
CMA 3
Calgary 67 72.8 12 13.0 10 10.9 3 3.3 0 0.0 92 9.1
Ottawa 22 37.9 28 48.3 6 10.3 2 3.4 0 0.0 58 6.6
Toronto4 162 59.8 88 32.5 20 7.4 1 0.4 0 0.0 271 5.5
Edmonton 18 60.0 10 33.3 2 6.7 0 0.0 0 0.0 30 4.0
Hamilton4 12 66.7 2 11.1 4 22.2 0 0.0 0 0.0 18 3.5
Vancouver5 18 24.7 8 11.0 5 6.8 1 1.4 41 56.2 73 3.3
Montréal 41 48.2 27 31.8 9 10.6 7 8.2 1 1.2 85 2.3
Québec 11 64.7 2 11.8 3 17.6 0 0.0 1 5.9 17 2.3
Winnipeg 9 60.0 6 40.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 15 2.3
Canada 502 56.3 220 24.7 80 9.0 22 2.5 68 7.6 892 3.1
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
1. Includes language, disability, gender and other similar factors, such as profession and political beliefs.
2. Rate per 100,000 population
3. A census metropolitan area (CMA) refers to a large urban core (at least 100,000 population) combined with adjacent urban and rural areas that have a high degree of economic and social integration. A CMA usually comprises more than one police service.
4. Excludes data from the Halton Regional Police Service and the Durham Regional Police Service due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.
5. The high number of unknown motivations in Vancouver is primarily the result of hate crimes reported by the RCMP under the aggregate UCR survey.
Note: Includes data from municipal and provincial police services as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in British Columbia, covering 87% of the Canadian population.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR2.2) Survey and Supplemental Hate Crime Survey.