The report begins with a review of the literature on the history of hate crime in Canada, definitions of hate crime, available research and data on hate crimes, and factors that contribute to the commission of hate crimes. The next section of the report focuses on hate crime data-collection issues. Issues discussed include the benefits and disadvantages of collecting hate-crime statistics; data-collection strategies in other jurisdictions, with attention to the United States and the United Kingdom; police-reported statistics on hate crime; community-group statistics; and victimization surveys. Another section of the report examines police policies and procedures that might facilitate or impede police agencies' recording of data on hate crimes known to the police. This section concludes that most police agencies in Canada have a substantial infrastructure of policies, procedures, and definitions in place that would facilitate the collection of statistics on hate-crimes. The results of the 1999 General Social Survey indicate that of the total number of victimization incidents reported, 4 percent (272,732 incidents) were considered by the victim to be motivated by hate because of some victim characteristic, most often the victim's race. The general conclusion of this report is that data on the nature and extent of hate crimes in Canada are lacking, and this impedes the development of effective response strategies. 54 references and appended hate-crime data-collection forms used for U.S. national databases and detailed findings on Canadian police's data-collection policies and procedures