On 29 January 2017 , a university student shot and killed six people with another 17 injured in a mass shooting at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre . Even after accounting for this event , the CMA of Quebec had the second lowest Crime Severity Index in the country in 2017 , at 48.5 , after that of Barrie ( 45.3 ) . For the year 2017 , the number of reported incidents investigated as hate crimes by the city police increased from 57 to 71 , and for those specifically targeting Muslims from 21 to 42 . The overall rate of reported hate crimes was thus 7.1 per 100,000 population — higher than the national average ( 3.9 ) and in Montreal ( 4.7 ) but lower than rates in Hamilton , Ottawa and Thunder Bay
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