From our perspective, when a call comes in, police officers are dispatched to the site. We'll conduct interviews of individuals—the victims, the people who might have noticed or who can provide us with information around the related crime—and if a suspect is identified, we'll follow where the evidence leads us.
Then, when we're looking at hate crimes, based on a definition by Stats Canada, that will be the trigger for us to then report it as a hate crime or not. This is based on the information we've collected from the witnesses, from the victims, and even from the suspect or suspects. When it comes to ideology and understanding why a crime was committed, sometimes it's the information that was collected from the suspect.