Ottawa

‘I regret what happened and it won’t happen again’

The CBC reports that NDP MP Romeo Saganash was removed from an Air Canada flight on Friday after it was decided that he was too intoxicated to fly.

“It was Friday, it had been a long week, and we’re all stressed out at that time,” Saganash told CBC News on Parliament Hill on Monday. “I apologize.” “This is the first time that it has happened in thirty years in the air. I regret what happened and it won’t happen again,” he said.

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