MISSISSAUGA — Mississauga Brampton-South MP Eve Adams received a ticket from an RCMP officer last week on Parliament Hill, she has confirmed.

In an e-mail to The Hill Times, Adams said "I recently received a traffic ticket outside the main precinct for not coming to a complete stop."

She denied an earlier report by the same Parliamentary newspaper that quoted sources as saying she was ticketed for talking on a cell phone while she drove through a security stop leading to the House of Commons building.

The Hill-Times' initial report indicated that Adams "impatiently pointed out to an RCMP security officer that she was an MP after she was first stopped, and that she attempted to pull rank on the officer by declaring she was an MP and pointing to the official collar badge all MPs wear for security reasons."