OTTAWA – Corus Radio Montreal’s host Pierre "Doc" Mailloux continues to ignore the CAB’s Code of Ethics.
On Friday, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said his open-line program on CKAC contained inappropriate insults and sexually explicit dialogue and was in violation of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics. (Caution, foul language below). Mailloux’s show is often in front of the CBSC for review.
The topic of the January 24 episode, adolescent sexuality, gave the hosts the opportunity to react to widely reported comments made by actor Bruce Willis on that subject. Willis apparently stated that he had warned his teenage daughters about what teenage boys are “really thinking”, namely, sex. Mailloux objected to Willis’ position, calling him a “plein de marde” [“full of shit”] and other unsavoury terms, says the CBSC release. "In addition, some of the dialogue included detailed descriptions of sexual activity and vulgar terminology."
“’Wrong’ would be an acceptable criticism; ‘full of shit’ is not," said the CBSC’s Quebec regional panel.
The Panel also found a violation of Clause 9 of the CAB Code of Ethics, which requires that broadcasters refrain from airing unduly sexually explicit material during daytime radio hours:
"[T]here were several examples of comments that were unduly sexually explicit for a time of the day when children could be expected to be listening. […] The following references, whether individually or cumulated, exceed the bounds of the acceptable in a broadcast at that time of day: [translations] ‘fuck a woman’, ‘screw with other girls’ (a comment made, in this instance, by a caller, but one for which the broadcaster is nonetheless responsible), ‘screw his daughters’, ‘I got sucked, I ate a woman’s clitoris’, ‘the little […] vagina will begin to lubricate’, the lengthy and detailed description by caller Alexandre of his first experience of sexual intercourse, even the dialogue with [11-year old] Émilie regarding the sexual activities of her parents, and caller Claude’s description of having ‘felt up… girls’," says the CBSC release.
CKAC is required to: 1) announce the decision, in the following terms, once during peak listening hours within three days following the release of this decision and once more within seven days following the release of this decision during the time period in which Doc Mailloux was broadcast; 2) within the fourteen days following the broadcast of the announcements, to provide written confirmation of the airing of the statement to the complainant who filed the Ruling Request; and 3) at that time, to provide the CBSC with a copy of that written confirmation and with air check copies of the broadcasts of the two announcements which must be made by CKAC.
