Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre vows to end imports of overseas oil within five years if elected as prime minister. At a campaign tour on Friday in Saint John, New Brunswick, Poilievre said he will do so by banning imports from “polluting dictatorships,” doubling Newfoundland’s oil production, and supporting projects that move western Canadian oil to eastern Canadian markets. “We will ban oil from polluting dictatorships,” Poilievre said. “Overseas countries that are run by dictators that use money from their sales to fund terrorism or abuse their citizens’ rights and fail to meet our high environmental standards here in Canada, will no longer have the privilege to sell oil into the Canadian marketplace.” Though most Canadian crude oil comes from the United States, nearly 25 percent was imported from other overseas countries, according to the Canada Energy Regulator in its latest update on April 14, 2021. In 2020, Canada imported roughly …