Don’t ban laptops from House, say MPs after ‘soft-porn, Playboy-type’ allegation in Chamber

NDP MP Irene Mathyssen's sensational allegation against Tory MP James Moore was off base, but should MPs be looking at such personal pictures in the House?

MPs say they don't want to ban laptops in the House Chamber, after Conservative MP James Moore was wrongly accused of looking at "soft porn, Playboy-type stuff" on his laptop computer last week during adjournment proceedings in the Commons. The pictures were of his girlfriend, he later said.

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