Article content More than 15 organizations from Montreal and elsewhere in Canada are calling on the provincial and federal governments to begin collecting race-based and socio-economic data surrounding the spread of COVID-19. “We have a lot of groups supporting us for this,” said Fo Niemi, president of Montreal’s Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR), which is spearheading the initiative. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Montreal groups to call for release of race-based COVID-19 data Back to video “People are saying it’s long overdue; we really need it. There is no data to know how different communities are being hit by COVID-19,” Niemi said.