OTTAWA -- In an abrupt about-face, New Democrat MP Irene Mathyssen issued a formal and "unqualified" apology to a Conservative MP yesterday after falsely accusing him of surfing "soft porn" in the Commons.
Mathyssen interrupted scheduled events in her London-Fanshawe riding to hightail it back to Ottawa and read a prepared statement in the House of Commons.
The rookie MP apologized for standing in the House this week to complain B.C. MP James Moore had been viewing images of a "scantily clad woman" on his laptop computer in the chamber.
The images on Moore's computer were actually of his dog and his girlfriend on vacation.
Thursday, Mathyssen told The Free Press she stood by her complaint -- and that she intended to apologize Monday, but only for not talking to the MP before raising the issue.
The formal regrets come one day after another apology from the NDP, that one for falsely accusing a Liberal candidate of trying to bribe his NDP rival into quitting during the last election campaign.
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