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Report Data - Canada - 2016

14 March 2017

Official Data

Year Hate crimes recorded by police Prosecuted Sentenced About these data
2019 Not available Not available Not available
2018 1798 - -
2017 2073 Not available Not available
2016 1409 Not available Not available
2015 1362 Not available Not available

Hate crimes recorded by police

By bias motivation By type of crime
Download official data [1]
IGO Reports 
Organization Name 
United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent [2]
Organization Report 

In the report on its mission to Canada, the United Nations Human Rights Council's Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, observed that the prosecutors play a crucial role in requesting from judges that sentences be aggravated by racist motivation and therefore recommended improving the understanding of anti-Black racism among prosecutors and judges. 

Bias Motivation 
Racism and xenophobia [3]
Description Type 
Developments
Organization Name 
United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) [4]
Organization Report 

In its concluding observation on periodic reports of Canada, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) expressed concern that racist hate crimes remain under-reported and that the racist hate crime is not tracked consistently across Canada's ten provinces. CERD also expressed concern at the increase in hate crimes targeting Muslims. CERD recommended that Canada facilitate reporting by victims, ensure the effective investigation of racist hate crimes and prosecute and sanction perpetrators. It recommended that Canada should also systematically track hate crimes across the criminal justice system, train law enforcement and judges on how to recognize and register hate crimes and address the reasons for the increase in hate crime targeting Muslims.

Bias Motivation 
Racism and xenophobia [3]
Bias against Muslims [5]
Description Type 
Developments
ODIHR Recommendations 

ODIHR observes that Canada has not reported to ODIHR the numbers of prosecuted hate crime cases and information on sentenced hate crime cases.

National Developments 
Bias Motivation 
Racism and xenophobia [3]
Description Type 
Reports
Organization Report 

This category captures hate crimes motivated by bias on the following grounds: Aboriginal, Arab / West Asian, Black, East and Southeast Asian, South Asian, White, Multiple Races / Ethnicities, Other Race / Ethnicity and Unknown Race / Ethnicity and bias against language.

Bias Motivation 
Bias against members of other religions or beliefs [6]
Description Type 
Reports
Organization Report 

This category captures hate crime motivated by bias against Catholics, members of other religion and unknown religion.

Bias Motivation 
Bias against other groups - Sexual orientation or gender identity [7]
Description Type 
Reports
Organization Report 

This category includes 171 crimes committed with homophobic motivation and seven transphobic hate crimes.

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Source URL: https://hatecrime.osce.org/report-data/canada/2016?destination=node/565

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[1] https://hatecrime.osce.org/node/565/csv
[2] https://hatecrime.osce.org/igo/united-nations-working-group-experts-people-african-descent
[3] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/racism-and-xenophobia
[4] https://hatecrime.osce.org/igo/united-nations-committee-elimination-racial-discrimination-cerd
[5] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/bias-against-muslims
[6] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/bias-against-members-other-religions-or-beliefs
[7] https://hatecrime.osce.org/what-hate-crime/bias-against-other-groups-sexual-orientation-or-gender-identity