NEUBERGFELD, MB

Despite extensive checks and balances to prevent such a practice, CBC reports that a non-Mennonite couple was accidentally approved for a mortgage at Neubergfeld Credit Union this past week.

“We’re looking into the matter,” said the Neubergfeld CU president. “Here at Neubergfeld Credit Union we take this sort of error very seriously and will do our utmost to make sure an Englisher is not allowed to slip through again.”

Investigators are attributing the violation to human error, though it’s still unclear how the Neubergfeld mortgage officer was unaware ‘Wilson’ was not a Mennonite surname, especially since every Neubergfeld employee has an extensive list of approved surnames.

“Our rule of thumb is: ‘No Bible at home and you don’t get a loan,'” said the president. “When a

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