""Statistics Canada reported that hate crimes against Muslims rose 60 per cent in 2015, alone. This is not surprising. That year encompassed Stephen Harper’s niqab and “barbaric cultural practices” initiatives. It was also the year of the failed Quebec Charter of Values that directly targeted Muslims.""

The author may wish to note here that 2015 also witnessed a huge spike in terrorist attacks by Islamic State members/those inspired by IS in the West as well as a huge wave of migrant crime controversies in Europe...likely a bigger contributing factor to the stat above than the election rhetoric or Quebec values debate.