Statistics Canada says there were 1,946 police-reported hate crimes in Canada in 2019, up 7% from a year earlier. Other than a single peak of 2,073 in 2017, police-reported numbers are the highest since 2009.
In 2019, accounting for population size, hate crime rates were highest in British.
In Saskatchewan, there were a total of 30 cases reported in 2018 and 32 in 2019. Most were based on race or ethnicity with 17 in 2018 and 15 in 2019.
Statistics Canada says, incidents against Indigenous people continued to account for a relatively small proportion of police-reported hate crimes; about 2 per cent.
Across Canada, hate crimes targeting religion were down because of fewer incidents targeting the Jewish population. There were more incidents targeting Muslims.

Police reported 263 hate crimes in Canada targeting sexual orientation in 2019, up 41% from a year earlier. This was the highest number of hate crimes targeting sexual orientation dating back to 2009. Nearly 9 in 10 of these crimes specifically targeted the gay and lesbian community, while the remainder comprised incidents targeting bisexual people; people with other sexual orientations, such as asexual, pansexual or other non-heterosexual orientations; and people whose sexual orientation was unknown.

In 2019, 608 hate crimes targeting religion were reported by police, down 7% compared with 2018. Victimization information has shown that people affiliated with a non-Christian religion were significantly more likely than Christians to report having experienced discrimination on the basis of their religion (11% versus 1%).
The number of incidents targeting the Jewish population decreased 20% in 2019, from 372 to 296. While police-reported metrics indicate a decrease in hate crimes targeting the Jewish population, an annual audit conducted by B’Nai Brith Canada reported a record number of anti-Semitic incidents for the fourth consecutive year.
In contrast, following a large decrease in hate crimes against the Muslim population in 2018, police reported 15 more incidents in 2019, for a total of 181 (+9%). The increase in police-reported hate crimes against Muslims was largely the result of more incidents in Quebec (+15 incidents).