Will high-speed rail help get Canada's electric ambitions back on track?

Open this photo in gallery: The first high-speed train in Canada, the X 2000, stopped in Toronto in July 1993. It was the second stop on a five-city tour along the Windsor-Quebec rail corridor. This was the first time a high speed train had ever been in the country.Roger Hallett/For The Globe and Mail Chris Turner's latest book, How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World, won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Last week, with the country in the grip of a nationalistic fervour the likes of which Canada hasn't seen in decades, the federal…