Meet Niki Ashton , the Bernie Sanders of Canada . 
Bernie Sanders
Ashton seems to have learned the right lessons from that debacle , has taken inspiration from the insurgent , unapologetically progressive campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn , and hopes to both bring the NDP back to its left-wing roots and ride the same populist wave that propelled those two perennial afterthought backbenchers into the international spotlight .
Ashton seems to have learned the right lessons from that debacle , has taken inspiration from the insurgent , unapologetically progressive campaigns of [TGT] and Jeremy Corbyn , and hopes to both bring the NDP back to its left-wing roots and ride the same populist wave that propelled those two perennial afterthought backbenchers into the international spotlight .