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This summary highlights key learnings from section 6 of the report. Download our full report (PDF, 23MB) for more information and details. You may also click on any heading below to open up that section of the PDF report.
Recommendations 1–2 focus on how the work to address hate can be organized in B.C.
Create a plan that includes:
- Advice from a community advisory group
- Data collected about hate happening in the province
- Publishing a report each year, and
- Giving B.C.’s Human Rights Commissioner the responsibility to make sure the strategy stays on track
Who this is for: the Government of B.C.
Understanding hate and acknowledging its harm
Recommendations 3–6 highlight the need for understanding hate as an important part of prevention and response.
Realize our responsibility to each other by understanding and standing up against hate
Who this is for: All of us
Do more teaching and learning in schools about hate and how to stop it
Who this is for: Minister of Education and Child Care
Build a province-wide reporting system that includes supports for survivors
Who this is for: Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General with support from Attorney General
Require training on hate crimes for police
Who this is for: Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General and police services
Building safety and belonging
Recommendations 7–9 address how “us” against “them” thinking threatens our sense of belonging and safety, which leaves room for hate to grow.
Support and fund community restorative justice and healing programs to help people radicalized into hate as well as people impacted by hate
Who this is for: Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General with support from Attorney General
Add plans to address hate to emergency response planning
Who this is for: Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General and Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness
Commit to changing how content is shared and how hate is addressed and share how effective these changes are
Who this is for: social media companies including Google, Meta, Reddit, Rumble, Telegram, TikTok and Twitter
Fostering accountability and repairing harm
Recommendations 10–12 aim to hold people accountable and support those who have been harmed in order to help repair the damage of hate.
Make it easier for police and Crown lawyers to recommend and make a hate-related charge
Who this is for: Attorney General
Write a policing standard to tell police:
- When gender-based violence should be considered a hate crime
- How to recognize and prove when a crime is motivated by hate
- To make at least one position a specialist in hate crimes
- That data about hate should be collected and shared
- To encourage people to report more hate incidents
Who this is for: Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General
Help the Human Rights Tribunal help more people by:
- Making sure they have enough money to deal with complaints quickly
- Change the Code to make it clear it protects against hate speech online
- Add protections to the Code for people experiencing hate because they are unemployed or homeless
Who this is for: Attorney General
Inquiry report (full)
The full Inquiry report (PDF, 23MB) is available for download. The over 400-page long report (including appendices) details the Inquiry process, community stories, investigation results and the Commissioner’s recommendations for how we can collectively move forward.
For a quick overview, see the plain language summaries below or our executive summary, also available in multiple languages.
