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In the Kapyong Barracks there used to live army personnel. A while ago they moved out from the town and the “barracks” - which are actually normal, nice houses - became empty. For the moment our tax money is paying for their heating to protect them from deteriorating… There is an ongoing battle about the future of these houses. One proposal was to use them in an affordable housing program, among others, for immigrants and refugees. After an article in the local newspaper (Winnipeg Free Press) last week, on the weekend we had the pleasure to read the following letter:

Sat Feb 18 2006

LETTER OF THE DAY

Re: A place to call home (Feb. 16).
I have been reading with great dismay about the River Heights Ministerial Housing Action Group (HAG) wanting to take over the houses at Kapyong Barracks. I don’t know if the public realizes or not, but it was not only the 2PPCLI that occupied these houses. There are still many of us who live in these quarters (air force). As long as this land belongs to the government and we are still occupying these houses (and paying our rent each month), I don’t believe that they should be rented out to low-income or immigrant individuals. It would bring down the value of other homes in the area as the crime rates would most likely jump substantially.

I for one do not believe that these homes should be made available to any other groups or individuals unless they are with the Canadian Forces or the RCMP. If all of these homes at some point become vacated, then maybe, but not until then do I believe that they should be made available to any other groups or individuals. This is a military community and that is the way we want to keep it.

BRENDA LEBLANC, Winnipeg

At least this letter writer is sincere. When they are not a first or second generation immigrant anymore (because, don’t forget, otherwise everybody comes from an immigrant family in this country!) - so, when they are not a “new-comer” then they really don’t like the immigrants. As an “immigrant individual” my spouse got very upset by this letter and told me even if she never wanted to write a letter to any newspaper, now she felt she should. As for me, the other “immigrant individual” in the household, I just told her what I wrote above: “at least this Brenda is sincere”…

Officially, we hear the usual lip service: The country needs the immigrant workforce (which is true), this country welcomes the cultural diversity (which is not true). We are most multicultural, the most tolerant, the most…

Some people are. We have wonderful friends — almost none of them fresh immigrants but local Winnipeggers. Open-minded, nice people, true friends. Though many others say we were very lucky to get them. Maybe.

On the other hand, when I am not blogging here, I try to help Canadians to get debt free and to retire financially independent. Since the average Canadians are spending 118% of their income - there is a lot of need for it. However, it happens quite often that they simply refuse to take advantage of the benefits I can offer… just because they don’t want and cannot accept that an “immigrant individual” could know more about their finances than they do. No matter how many courses I took, how many exams I passed, how many licences I obtained in two provinces. They rather harm themselves (and harm my business, too). The underlying mentality is exactly as in the letter quoted above: don’t let too close the second-class immigrant and low income individuals. Put them in their ghettos (politically correct translation: place them in their own community), once in a year they can come out to dance and cook during the Folklorama, after that keep them away from “us”.

I am not getting hurt anymore by this mentality. Got used to it. The only bad part is that our good friends being the only “real” Canadians that I talk to, I am going to hurt them when I complain about the idiocies of this society. Probably it would be more rewarding to just kick in butt this Brenda…