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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle4629646/

A New Democrat MP from northern Quebec has apologized for being too drunk to fly and says he will take time off to deal with his alcohol addiction.

Romeo Saganash, the MP for Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou, was escorted from an Air Canada Jazz flight from Montreal on Friday after it was determined that he was intoxicated.

Mr. Saganash is a residential school survivor and a former deputy grand chief of the Grand Council of Crees who entered the race last year to succeed former NDP Leader Jack Layton but pulled out before the March convention that elected Thomas Mulcair.

“I am not looking at excuses, but I know that profound scars were left on me because of my time in residential school. I never shied away from,” he said in the statement.