Conservative leadership hopeful Pierre Poilievre promises to ban most foreign oil during N.B. campaign stop

Pierre Poilievre, considered one of 11 who’ve to date expressed curiosity in main the Conservative Celebration of Canada, spent Friday campaigning throughout New Brunswick.

In Saint John, he introduced plans to ban most non-U.S. international oil, ought to his campaigning take him all the best way to the prime minister’s workplace.

“Shopping for abroad oil from polluting dictatorships is horrible for the environment,” Poilievre stated.

“It exports our jobs, our cash and our air pollution to nations with poor ecological requirements. As an alternative, allow us to carry the roles, cash and enterprise to essentially the most environmentally accountable power sector on this planet right here in Canada.”

He says inside 5 years of forming authorities, he’d curb imports from nations like Saudi Arabia whereas boosting Canadian manufacturing to make up the shortfall – and stated he believes the province’s residents are behind him.

“New Brunswickers share my imaginative and prescient of creating Canada the freest nation on earth,” says Poilievre.

‘Broaden his base’

Taking a look at 5 years after turning into prime minster — earlier than even being permitted for the CPC management poll — is likely to be a little bit untimely, however College of New Brunswick political science professor Don Wright says possibly not.

“Pierre Poilievre has to broaden his base,” Wright says.

“He can’t rely merely on Western Canadian assist or Ontario assist. It’s a nationwide race so he’s received to search out the votes the place they’re, and if they’re in a small province like New Brunswick, so be it.

“He’ll make the journey down.”

Early on, Poilievre aligned himself with recent New Brunswick MP Jake Stewart, naming him as his New Brunswick marketing campaign chair.

Wright says folks shouldn’t be stunned if different hopefuls begin making strikes like this on the East Coast as properly.

“They need to be a giant tent social gathering and so they can’t be a small tent social gathering,” he stated.

“They’ll’t merely be grievance-based, western Canadian social conservatism. They’ve received to broaden their tent to be a conservative social gathering for all conservatives. And that’s why folks like Pierre Poilievre goes to make the journey to small locations like New Brunswick,” stated Wright.

CPC management hopefuls have till April 19 to throw their hat into the ring and till June 3 to promote memberships.

The social gathering will vote on its new chief on September 10.