OHRC policies and guides that include components addressing hate expression
- Policy and guidelines on racism and racial discrimination
- Racial discrimination, race and racism (fact sheet)
- Policy on preventing discrimination based on creed
- Policy on competing human rights
- Policy on discrimination and harassment because of sexual orientation
- Policy on preventing discrimination because of gender identity and gender expression
- Guide to your rights and responsibilities under the Human Rights Code (see section 13 on announced intention to discriminate)
- Policy statement on a human rights-based approach to managing the COVID-19 pandemic (See principle 5: Respond to racism, ageism, ableism and other forms of discrimination)
Other OHRC statements that address hate expression
- 2023 – OHRC social media statement denouncing the hate-motivated vandalism of a Hindu temple
- 2023 – OHRC statement on Code obligations of education officials
- 2021 – OHRC statements on national summits on islamophobia and antisemitism
- 2021 – COVID - OHRC urges Ontarians to respect the human rights of South Asian communities
- 2021 – OHRC statement on mass killings in London, Ontario
- 2020 – A critical juncture of hate: OHRC Chief Commissioner statement on how Canada is facing two pandemics – COVID-19 and the pandemic of brazen hate, extremism and brutality
- 2018 – January 29 a day to remember the tragic consequences of hate
- 2017 – Opening statement: Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination M-103
- 2016 – Ontario Human Rights Commission response to Orlando mass shooting
- 2015 Dec 10th – statement: History teaches us that difficult conversations about religion must start from respect and inclusion, not hate and division
- 2015 – Terror abroad has revealed troubling hate here at home
- 2013 – Re: Racist anti-Aboriginal slurs
- 2011-12 annual report Competing rights: setting the stage for respectful dialogue
- 2011 – OHRC factum Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission v. Whatcott
- 2010 – OHRC Anti-racism and anti-discrimination for municipalities: Introductory manual
- 2009 – OHRC submission to the Canadian Human Rights Commission’s report concerning section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the regulation of hate speech on the internet prepared by Richard Moon October 2008
- 2008 – Commission reports on inquiry into assaults against Asian Canadian Anglers
- 2008 – OHRC reference to the Ontario Hate crimes community working group
- 2008 – OHRC submission to the Canadian Human Rights Commission concerning section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the regulation of hate speech on the internet
- 2001 – 9-11 attacks "Compassion, justice and a renewal of our pledge against hatred should mark this day of mourning", says Chief Commissioner Keith Norton
Other resources
- British Columbia’s Human Rights Commission public inquiry and 2023 report into hate incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic (see also their Qs and As on hate speech)
- A review of services for victims of hate in Canada: Interim report 2022 (Canadian Race Relations Foundation)
- Bill C-36 2021 An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Canadian Human Rights Act and to make related amendments to another Act (hate propaganda, hate crimes and hate speech) (the bill died on the Order Paper when Parliament was dissolved on 15 August 2021)
- Legislative Summary of Bill C-36 (includes a summary of hate promotion and hate crimes in Canada and an overview of the Canadian legal context)
- Hate/Bias crime: A Review of Policies, Practices and Challenges (Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, 2020)
- Police-reported hate-motivated crime, by detailed motivation, Canada, 2020 to 2021 (Statistics Canada). Also see this more detailed analysis for 2020
- Ontario Mandates Universities and Colleges to Introduce Free Speech Policy by January 1, 2019 (policies must also ensure that hate speech, discrimination and other illegal forms of speech are not allowed on campus)
- 2006 – Final Report of the Hate Crimes Community Working Group