OTTAWA (CP) - A senior Conservative organizer tried to recruit a 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.
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