Mailloux was notorious for his controversial on-air comments and in 2002 was officially reprimanded by the
Collège des médecins for making a diagnosis on the air, comments considered "unworthy of a doctor" and inaccurate information he gave about a drug. Other topics he often spoke about included voluntary
castration of
pedophiles, violence toward children, incest, and he often criticized
feminists. Mailloux served as an on-air psychiatrist for the Quebec version of the
reality show Loft Story, where he made remarks that upset the parents of a participant while analyzing her behaviour. On February 10, 2005, the Quebec Regional Panel of the
Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, answering a listener's complaint, determined that Mailloux had made "specifically-focused abusive and unduly discriminatory remarks" toward ethnic groups when talking about
immigration in a broadcast. 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, 2005, 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 are born less intelligent than White people" because of
artificial selection from
slavery and the Europeans who used to kill the smartest "Indians" to better control the population. He said that it accounts for their poverty and high unemployment rate. He also stated that "
Janet Jackson exhibits tribal behaviour". On September 25, 2005, 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 have a lower
IQ average than white and Asian Americans, a currently controversial topic of study about
race and intelligence. Mailloux 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 Collège to reinstate Mailloux until his hearing in front of the discipline committee. He was later reinstated and resumed his practice. On March 20, 2007, a
Journal de Montréal news article reported that in an interview with
Télé-Québec's host
Richard Martineau, Mailloux said that women manage stress more poorly than men, that they are also less able to make decisions under pressure. However, he also said that women are better than men in other medical fields. He also said he would never work for a woman. He also made rude gestures and obscene language towards the host. Télé-Québec did not air the interview and never released any footage from that single 8-hour-long session at Mailloux's farm. In September 2007, during an interview on a
Rouyn-Noranda radio station, Mailloux made controversial comments about the mayor of
Saguenay,
Jean Tremblay, after he read a memoir at the
Bouchard-Taylor Commission on the
reasonable accommodation. In the memoir, Tremblay was in favour of maintaining
Roman Catholic traditions like the traditional prayer before each city council meeting and keeping the cross in Saguenay's city hall. Mailloux also criticized the people of the city, saying its citizens lacked judgement by voting for Tremblay, also explaining the high unemployment rate in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. ==References==