The number of hate crimes in Thunder Bay has dropped significantly since 2017, according to StatsCanada.
The rate was 17.1 that year, but 5.6 in 2019 for 100,000 people.
Mayor Bill Mauro notes, however, it’s still up to people to determine how they interpret those numbers, when compared to other cities. “People will have heard me talk about this in the past. It was great concern to me for how reporting is conducted in Thunder Bay relative to other cities, and whether other cities even report, or log, or track those sorts of incidences.”
Thunder Bay’s mayor adds this city is not any different from other communities.
He’s also crediting not only work at city hall, but also community groups.
“Like the Dennis Franklin Cromarty group, and the Wake the Giant project that they undertook, that we supported. I think city hall was one of the first business entities, or organizations, to accept the symbol,” says Mauro.
Hamilton had the highest rate at 15.7 in 2019.
