OTTAWA—Christine Moore, the NDP MP whose harassment accusations led to the expulsion of her colleague Erin Weir from the party’s caucus, is now herself facing allegations of inappropriate conduct from an Afghanistan war veteran.

And just like Weir before her, Moore was suspended from parliamentary duties Tuesday, as party leader Jagmeet Singh called for an investigation that will determine whether she, too, will be booted from the NDP caucus.

The latest controversy to strike the New Democratic Party fold emerged after Glen Kirkland, a veteran who was seriously wounded in Afghanistan in 2008, told CBC about his interactions with Moore in 2013, when she was a rookie MP for the Quebec riding of Abitibi—Témiscamingue.

In an interview with the Star Tuesday morning, Kirkland alleged Moore “took advantage” of him after he delivered emotional testimony about his combat experience at a committee hearing on Parliament Hill. He said she invited him to her office to discuss his health concerns, because she was a registered nurse. Kirkland said she poured him gin as he told her about his medication and that he wasn’t drinking very much. She then “followed” him to his hotel when he left her office, he said, alleging he felt a “big power imbalance” because he was an army corporal and she was a member of Parliament.

“I’m not claiming rape or anything, it was just real — it’s disturbing,” said Kirkland, 34.

He said Moore contacted him repeatedly after their encounter — by email, text and on Skype, he said — and that her advances ended only after she travelled without invitation to his home in Brandon, Man.

“I was an emotional mess then, and she totally — there’s no question about it — took advantage,” Kirkland said. “I thought I made it pretty clear that I wasn’t interested. But she kept pressuring me… It was very self-guided by her.”

Moore did not respond to an interview request from the Star Tuesday.

In a short, emailed public statement, the 34-year-old MP welcomed the chance to participate in an “independent and fair examination” of Kirkland’s allegations.

“Out of respect for the fairness and the integrity of the process, I will not be commenting further on these allegations at this point,” Moore said.

Singh said in a statement Tuesday that he takes Kirkland’s allegations “very seriously” and that an independent investigator will conduct a “fair and full” examination.

“While that process is ongoing, Mme Moore’s duties as an NDP MP, including participation on any committee, will be temporarily suspended. Once the work of the investigator has been completed, Mme Moore’s role in caucus will be re-evaluated,” Singh said.

The allegations emerged just days after Singh announced the Weir investigation found one claim of harassment and three claims of sexual harassment against the MP for Regina—Lewvan were “sustained.” The NDP leader called for the investigation in February, after Moore emailed Weir and the entire party caucus and wrote “there are too many women (mostly employees who have) complained to me that you were harassing to them.”

Singh said last week that the investigation found Weir missed social signals in a way that had “significant negative impacts” on the complainants. He noted that when Weir was told “his advances were unwanted, he immediately stopped.”

Though he was initially willing to allow Weir to stay in caucus and undergo harassment training, Singh decided to expel him after Weir contested one of the allegations against him in the media, and accused former leader Tom Mulcair and fellow MP Charlie Angus of punishing him for his views on carbon taxes.

“This makes it clear that the rehabilitative approach was no longer possible,” Singh said at the time.

Kirkland, meanwhile, said he was “sick to my stomach” when he learned Moore was the person that initially accused Weir of harassment. He said Moore pursued him even though “there was a lot more than just social cues for her to pick up on.”

“She was making the accusation on behalf of other people,” he said. “Who put her in that moral authority?”

Weir, who now sits as an independent in the House of Commons, has called the investigation into his behaviour “deeply flawed” because it started with Moore’s second-hand allegations and then “solicited” anonymous complaints from party staff and volunteers.

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In an interview with the Star last week, he acknowledged that he missed social cues, and said the investigation found that he stood and sat too close to women, and spoke to them longer than they wanted him to — behaviour he said is “far from what most Canadians would think of as harassment.”

A party official speaking on background disputed Weir’s characterization of the findings, and said the investigation revealed a “pattern” of “behaviour of a sexual nature.”

Outside the Commons Tuesday, Nathan Cullen, an NDP MP from British Columbia, said Singh took appropriate action by launching a similar process for Moore as he did for Weir.

“I don’t look for any sense of irony, I just look for that sense of consistency and fairness from the leadership,” he said. “I think Parliament itself has been stuck in the past for many years, that there has been a culture around the Hill that has been tolerated for far too long, and was long overdue for overhaul.”

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