Deciphering Canadian Crime Stats

Who (or what) are The Racialized? Are Indigenous counted as Racialized? Are whites anything?

A month ago, a reader sent me an official homicide report from Statistics Canada figuring I’d be interested in the data. Which I was, but I’ve been intimidated ever since by trying to make sense out of the report because Canadian elites use their own private language for racial/ethnic groups.

Admittedly, the first Canadian term is pretty obvious: “Indigenous” is used to refer to people descended from the aboriginal inhabitants of Canada in 1492: Indians (First Nations), Eskimos (who are now Inuits), and Métis (mestizo offspring of Indians and Frenchmen).

There are the usual questions: If a Cherokee American Indian moved to Canada, would he be Indigenous? (Yes, if he chose to identify on the Census as Indigenous, but he would not qualify for tax breaks available to Status Indians, since his tribe is not registered in Canada.) Would Senator Elizabeth Warren qualify as Indigenous? Could a Siberian or Greenland Eskimo become Indigenous? What about an American Indian tribe like the Navajo or Apache who moved south into future U.S. territory from Canada pre-1492?

Still, it’s pretty clear whom the Indigenous refer to.

In Canada, the Indigenous have an extremely high homicide victimization rate, about eight times that of the non-Indigenous:

But who are the non-Indigenous?

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