Seamus O Regan

social media: Here a look at some other MPs who were troubled by alcohol: Seamus O'Regan The former television host and Liberal MP from Newfoundland took to social media in January to say he had checked into a Toronto treatment facility over the Christmas holidays to get help for a drinking problem, according to The Chronicle Herald. O'Regan, who later told CBC-TV his family and friends had staged "an intervention", said at the time that alcohol had become a part of his daily life over the last couple of years. "I was still working effectively and competently, but I realized, over time, that being competent was not good enough," O'Regan wrote in a statement on Facebook. "I was far from my best self. His is not a unique case. And the simple truth is that I owe my best self to my marriage, to my family, to my friends, and to my constituents," he wrote. Saganash said at the time that he did not want to make excuses for his behaviour, but that he was still struggling with his experiences as a residential school survivor and the death of former NDP leader Jack Layton. "I need help to overcome a medical problem, a dependence on alcohol, like far too many other Canadians," Saganash said in a statement. Romeo Saganash The NDP MP from northern Quebec took a break from politics to seek treatment for his alcohol addiction after he was escorted off an Air Canada Jazz flight in Montreal in October 2012, his drunken behaviour delaying the take-off to Val-d'Or, Que. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.