Winning Hearts and Minds, but Not the Canadian Election

In Canada, there is an inescapable tendency to use another, more influential country's politics to interpret one's own. In the tense lead-up to the federal election on October 21, a few Canadian leaders have tried to appropriate some of America's far-right revanchist language—so the same must be happening on the progressive end too, right? Does Canada have a Bernie Sanders? How about an AOC?

Not quite—but it does have Jagmeet Singh.