A new report from Statistics Canada paints a bleak picture of how gay, lesbian, bisexual and other minority people are treated in Canada.

The report shows that members of LGBTQ communities are nearly three times more likely than heterosexuals to experience sexual or physical assault.

Statistics Canada says the research is the first large-scale study of its kind to facilitate collecting information on the number of transgender and nonbinary Canadians.

The findings from a 2018 survey based on safety in public and private places are not pretty:

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and other sexual minority people in Canada were almost three times more likely than heterosexual Canadians to report that they had been physically or sexually assaulted in the previous 12 months in 2018.
They were more than twice as likely to report having been violently victimized since the age of 15.
Sexual minority Canadians were also more than twice as likely as heterosexual Canadians to experience inappropriate sexual behaviours in public, online or at work in the previous 12 months.