MPs are often accused of doing mundane things in the House of Commons as late night debates drag on.

From reading magazines to signing Christmas cards, to playing solitaire on their laptops. No one really cares.

But when NDP MP Irene Mathyssen said she saw Conservative MP James Moore gazing at a laptop photo of a "scantily clad woman" the other night, it suddenly became a big deal.

"I have very good vision. I know what I saw," Mathyssen told reporters. Turns out, however, what she saw was Moore gazing at a photo of his girlfriend.

She didn't find this out until after she had accused Moore of debasing Parliament, and after some Liberals, who didn't see anything, nonetheless waded and called Moore's actions "disgusting."

In the House, Moore strongly denied anything of the sort took place and called the charge "utterly baseless."

A few hours later Mathyssen apologized after finding out what Moore had really been looking at and said she would do so again in Parliament at the earliest opportunity.

Now, boys and girls.