Tories Court Racist Radio Talk Show Host

August 19th, 2006 by admin

OTTAWA - A senior Conservative organizer tried to recruit a racist, foul mouthed Quebec talk-show host known for making on-air racial slurs, party officials confirmed Wednesday.

But the officials said the organizer had never sought their approval to talk to Pierre (Doc) Mailloux about running for the Tories in the province, and that they would never have given their approval.

Pierre H. Vincent, chief recruiter for the Tories in Quebec, was described as an old friend of the controversial Mailloux - who questions the intelligence of blacks and aboriginals, calls Sikhs “bozos,” and says Africans don’t know how to behave.

“It was just an informal chat between old friends,” a senior Tory official said Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. Another top Tory said the party would never accept Mailloux as a candidate.

Mailloux told a Quebec newspaper this week that the Tories approached him two months ago to run in a riding in La Mauricie region, north of Montreal.

He said Vincent, a former cabinet minister in Brian Mulroney’s Tory government, talked to him about seeking a nomination. Mailloux rejected the offer.

Mailloux, a psychiatrist who hosts a popular Montreal talk-show, is no stranger to controversy.

He has repeatedly called for the castration of pedophiles, and has criticized feminists.

But it’s his eyebrow-raising views on race that have led to disciplinary measures by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, and by his own governing body for psychiatrists.

The opposition Liberals pounced on word that Mailloux was being courted.

“I was shocked to learn (of this),” said Liberal MP Marlene Jennings.

“This implies the Conservatives endorse the psychiatrist’s statement that black people have a lower I.Q. than white people, that Sikhs are bozos, and more of the same.”

Mailloux has said that native Americans and blacks are less intelligent than whites because Europeans killed off the smartest among them during the era of slavery, which accounts for excessive poverty and unemployment in those communities.

Source: The South Asian Link Newspaper (www.thelinkpaper.ca)

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