Canada's new pipeline push will turn out to be a costly blunder

Open this photo in gallery: Evidence filed by Trans Mountain with the Canadian Energy Regulator shows that the proposed tolls to ship oil to China are $9.19 per barrel higher than shipping on an Enbridge pipeline to the U.S. Gulf.JASON FRANSON/The Canadian Press Thomas Gunton is professor and founding director of the Resource and Environmental Planning Program at Simon Fraser University and recently completed a report for the International Institute for Sustainable Development on the Trans Mountain Pipeline. The upending of international trade by the Trump administration has posed an existential crisis for Canada. But while there is a consensus…