Gormley: Pipeline purchase decision is Trudeau's folly

Ottawa will buy a struggling oil pipeline project for $4.5 billion in a bid to save it. The politics are even more bizarre than the economics.
After personally killing the Northern Gateway pipeline and arbitrarily changing the rules which caused the cancellation of Energy East, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau naively thought that he could do two things at once, repeatedly chanting “the economy and the environment go hand-in-hand.”
As he encouraged virulent anti-oil carbon activists who