Judging by the comments so far , we appear to have a new phisherman out trolling , or is it a new troll out phishing ? Which has lead to a record amount of " < this comment did not meet civility standards >" 
Anyways , it should just be ignored and not dignified with a response of any kind.
The writer of the opinion piece appears to have not been paying real close attention to what JT has been saying for about 4 years. It appears he might actually mean it. We will confirm that  with the big test of Energy East.
"In fact it was never a quandary. Trudeau has been systematically laying the groundwork for this for better than four years – since his first campaign stop in Calgary, on day two of his leadership run. No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave it there, he said back then – and repeated it Tuesday, virtually verbatim."
see: Michael Den Tandt: Elizabeth May, get ready for the big house because pipelines are coming