Youre not wanted: Newcomer to Canada says racism forced him onto streets [Video]

After fleeing Uganda, Kateregga Raymond Calvin’s mind is more at ease than when he first arrived in Canada just over a year ago.

The refugee claimant was being harassed so he sought a new life in what he describes as a “peaceful” country. Calvin was able to find a place to call home in Montreal, but that’s when the problems started within his apartment building.

“My neighbours started bullying me. So I was literally kicked out of the house,” Calvin, 25, said in an interview Thursday.

The newcomer was the victim of racial taunts from other tenants, who he says targeted his dark skin and accent. At one point, Calvin claims he was told he was “not needed in this country.”

“Like, ‘You’re refugee, you’re an asylum seeker, you’re nothing in this country,’” Calvin said, describing the jeers.

Calvin began feeling isolated and unwanted. The racism became so untenable that …