For those who followed the original thread, my dog has now stopped the trainer from giving out his unwelcome opinion of huskies. He could do nothing but invite my dog to join his dog display team and we've got our first display this Saturday as a wild west theme in a local school fete. Now he makes no such comments about huskies being unintelligent.
The malamute's on the display team and he's very good too. Still hates Byron (our husky) though. Doesn't seem to get on with many of the dogs but there's always going to be chalk and cheese wherever you go!