The R Rated Blogger

Last Tuesday, on the Radio-Canada program Tout le monde en parle, psychiatrist Pierre Mailloux claimed to have studies that "demonstrate that the average intelligence quotient of blacks and American Indians is clearly lower than 100."

...statements such as Mailloux's are only one of the types of discrimination facing visible minorities. They note that while unemployment among Quebec blacks, Arabs, Asians and other visible minorities can be as high as 20 per cent, well above the eight-per-cent provincial average, 22 per cent of visible minorities have university degrees, above the 14-per-cent provincial average. Among black Quebecers, 15 per cent have university degrees, while 32 per cent of Arab Quebecers, the province's fastest-growing visible minority, have university degrees. But Alexandre Boulerice, of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, said repeated public commitments by ministers in favour of minority hiring do not always translate into jobs. "There is an old boys' club," he said.

This is not the first time Mailloux has made racist statements.

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."