To the editor:

Re: "Foreign ownership helps drive dysfunctional housing market," Jan. 18.

Anyone born in a family that came from outside North America is a foreign owner of sorts. I had clients in Europe who lived in a 300-year-old house built on the foundations of their family's previous home. Now that's local ownership.

Only the First Nations have the right to grumble about foreign owners.

Jean-Louis Brussac, Coquitlam