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Peterborough

Full of Edmonton

Hamilton
Victoria

3.4
Quebec

3.4 3.4 3.3

Kelowna

Gatineau

2.7 Montreal
Windsor
14.8
Ottawa
14.5
4.0 2.6 St. Catharines

4.3 Kitchener– 2.5

– Niagara

Cambridge–Waterloo

17.9
Abbotsford-
Mission
hate crimes
4.6 per 100,000 Saskatoon
The composition of Canada’s cultural, social, linguistic
Calgary population
8.5
and religious population is rapidly changing — and with 5.6 Guelph

17.1
such diversity in the country, discrimination or bias
can become problematic. London Vancouver
1,473
6.1 7.0
283
Police-reported In 2009, Canadian

hate crimes in
2009 police services Sherbrooke
reported 1,473 hate Kingston
Canada
crimes, up substan-
6.5
1,036
tially from the year
before. The Brantford Toronto 6.9
6.8 165
increase in police-
892 2008 reported hate crimes
in 2009 was largely
272
6.8
2006
765 the result of a higher
number of incidents Hate crimes
2007 in Ottawa, Toronto,
Kitchener- by religion
Cambridge-
Waterloo, and 205
Hate crimes 2008 2009
Montreal.
by race 36 44 30 33 26 36
2008
Other Catholic Muslim Jewish
2009 (Islam)
Relatively few hate crime cases
are completed in Canadian courts. 115
In 2009/2010, adult courts 92 96
completed a total of 14 cases: 75
64 71
10 cases 3 cases 1 case Of those cases, 55
37 44 42
22 34 20 26
of wilful of mischief of advo- there was at least
promotion and to religious cating one hate
public incite- property genocide crime charge Black South Arab/West East/ Caucasian Aboriginal Multiple Other
ment of hatred Asian Asian Southeast races &
Asian ethnicities
Sources: Statistics Canada SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY ANTHONY GREEN/QMI AGENCY