From 2002 t0 2015 Public Safety of Canada conducted a study to determine how widespread the white supremacist /hate culture views were in Canada. They found that hate crimes against religion or ethnic groups totalled 49 across Canada,primarily in Ontario and Quebec. Since the shooting at the mosque, there have been many claims that racism is widespread, based on what evidence was never made clear. Short of convicting people for thought crimes, the perception that hate/racism is widespread is purely conjecture.