This article reads more like a partisan rant then an objective analysis on hate crimes.

What the author conveniently leaves out of his political rant is that overwhelming majorities of Canadians supported enhanced screening of immigrants and the banning of the niqab at swearing in ceremonies.

And what was also conveniently left out, the Jewish are still the largest religious minority to face a hate crime.  Knowing just how anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish the tendencies are on the political left of the spectrum, the issue of hate is still predominantly a left wing phenonoma.