Canadian Heritage committee  In the past we have collected data from organizations such as those related to victim services to fill gaps in information. It's not unheard of for StatsCan to work with non-profit organizations or community-based organizations in data collection.

Canadian Heritage committee  We would see that, likely, not so much as a survey type of exercise but more as a research type of exercise for which there would be a specific research project design such that those who would have access to offenders could do interviews and collect that type of information. It

Canadian Heritage committee  Just to correct that, they may not lay a charge if they haven't found someone to charge, but the police data represent substantiated incidents that have been investigated.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's the police-level data, so it's everything the police respond to and it is substantiated by the police, regardless of whether or not they've found someone to charge, and regardless of whether or not it goes to court.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think this picks up on the other committee member's comment. Monsieur Clermont already commented a bit on what we do to validate the police-reported data. In terms of training police, we have online training for them to be able to understand how to correctly score the data, etc

Canadian Heritage committee  We don't have that information with us. We would have to provide that to the committee.

Canadian Heritage committee  This is the table.

Canadian Heritage committee  Do you mean in terms of the victims?

Canadian Heritage committee  We have victim information for violent violations, which we can provide as well.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. When I say “violent violations”.... In the uniform crime reporting survey, we collect victim information only if the violation is a violent one, not if it's a property one, so for violent hate crimes, we'll have that for you.

Canadian Heritage committee  We would have to look at the data that way. We just did it overall, for all victims, in terms of the reasons for not reporting.

Canadian Heritage committee  We started collecting in 2005. The survey was developed in the early 2000s, under the national action plan against racism at the time. It was developed in 2005, and police services came on gradually as they rolled into the newest version of the survey.

Canadian Heritage committee  Typically, the way it works in terms of collecting the uniform crime reporting survey data is that the new versions are implemented in their records management system, the automated system they use to input their records. When they upgrade to the next version of that with their v

Canadian Heritage committee  Accounting for the population, the rates are relatively low. The overall fluctuations year to year are not great, but we have seen differences in terms of particular groups—some of the differences that Mr. Clermont identified in the slides in terms of shifting targets for hate-mo

Canadian Heritage committee  We always caution in the report that reporting can vary from year to year. We know that there are a lot of factors that can influence that. These are incidents that are reported by victims to the police, and we know that not all incidents are reported to the police. We have seen