Pierre Mailloux

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Dr. Pierre Mailloux (better known as Doc Mailloux or Docteur Mailloux) (born January 14, 1949) is a psychiatrist hosting a long-running French-language talk show with Janine Ross on CKAC radio in Montreal, with a large audience.

[edit] Background

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

In 1975, after serving in the Canadian Forces as a psychiatrist, he started to work with offenders who've committed assaults and participate at numerous trials as an expert on the psychatric domain.

In 1988, he lost one of his legs due to an accident while he was helping motorists in which their vehicles were stalled beside a highway.

He started to work in 1995 for the radio station CKAC. Over the years, the title of his radio show on the Radiomédia network has changed from Un psy à l'écoute to Deux psy à l'écoute to Doc Mailloux. However, CKAC became in 2007 a sports channel and it is not clear if he will pursue his talk show at other radios of the network.

Mailloux has also written several books.

[edit] Controversies

He is notorious for controversial 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 participants.

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 Black 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 exhibits conduct was related to tribal dances".

On September 25, 2006 he appeared on the widely-viewed Québec television talk show, Tout le monde en parle and cited unspecified studies allegedly used at the Université de Montréal in psycho-education classes, stating that Black people in the Americas and Native Americans had lower IQ in average, a currently controversial topic of study about race and intelligence.

He was indefinitely barred from the Collège des médecins in January 2007 for prescribing abusive doses of neuroleptics to two of his patients and because of his earlier radio and TV claims and comments. The collège determined that Mailloux posed a threat to the medical profession. However, the CKRS radio station and a viewer circulated a petition for the College to reinstate Mailloux until his hearing in front of the discipline committee.[1]

On March 20, 2007, a Journal de Montréal news article reported that in an interview with Tele-Quebec host Richard Martineau, Mailloux said that women manage stress more poorly than men, that they are also less able to make decisions under pressure. He also said he would never work for a woman. He made rude gestures and obscene language towards the host as well. Tele-Quebec did not air the interview. [2]

In September 2007, during an interview on a Rouyn-Noranda radio station, Mailloux made controversial comments about the mayor of Saguenay, Quebec, Jean Tremblay after he read a memoir at the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on the reasonable accommodations. In the memoir, Tremblay was in favor of maintaining Catholic traditions like the traditional prayer before each City Council meeting and keeping the crucifix at Saguenay's City Hall. Mailloux also criticized the population of the city, saying its citizens lacked judgment by voting for Tremblay, also explaining the high unemployment rate in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. [3]