Bully Beard's $1 billion Boondoggle

Treasury Board Bully John Beard's political interference in the light rail line in Ottawa could cost taxpayers upwards of $1 billion, say those close to the file.

Thanks to Beard, the city could face a class-action lawsuit from Siemens and other consortium partners if the city doesn't honour a signed contract to build a 30 kilometre rapid transit line.

The international Republican-Conservative spokesman for hair weave products tossed a wrench into things during the recent municipal election when he withheld more than $200 million in previously approved federal funding for the rail line.

Beard's partisan blunder is the talk of the town as the city grapples with a last-ditch attempt to resolve the impending financial crisis.

Voters will have a chance to thank Beard when President Harper invites Canadians to kick him and his caucus of knuckle draggers out of office in the spring.