Pierre Mailloux

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Dr. Pierre Mailloux (better known as Doc Mailloux or Docteur Mailloux) is a psychiatrist hosting a long-running French-language talk show with Janine Ross on CKAC radio in Montreal, with a large audience.

He was born in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec. He studied medicine at Université Laval in Quebec City and psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal.

He is known for his on-air comments and in 2002 was officially reprimanded for them by the Collège des médecins. The topics he has spoken about include voluntary castration of pedophiles and criticism of feminists. He served as a sort of on-air psychiatrist for the Quebec version of the reality show Loft Story, where he made controversial remarks that upset the parents of some of the participants.

Mailloux has also written several books.

Over the years, the title of his radio show has changed from Un psy à l'écoute to Deux psy à l'écoute to Doc Mailloux.

On February 10, 2005, the Quebec Regional Panel of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, responding to a listener complaint, determined that Mailloux had made "specifically-focussed abusive and unduly discriminatory remarks" towards national or ethnic groups in a broadcast discussing immigration, such as when he referred to Sikhs as a "gang of bozos" (translated). They ruled that, in doing so, Mailloux and the station had broken the human rights clause of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Code of Ethics.

On June 23, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission released a similar ruling on two other comments, including a statement that "native americans and blacks people from the Americas were born less intelligent than whites because of artificial selection from slavery (he said europeans used to kill the smartest of them), and that accounts for their poverty and high unemployment rate", and one that "Janet Jackson, like her brother Michael, exhibits unacceptable conduct, and this is typical of African or black people, who do not know how to behave even though they left Africa many years ago." On September 25 he cited studies used at the University of Montréal (Université de Montréal in French) in psycho-education classes on Tout le monde en parle that black people in the Americas and native American people had lower IQ in average, a currently controversial topic of study about race and intelligence.