Canadian Professor David Haskell of Wilfrid Laurier University is running for office to save academia from leftists.

According to a report by The College Fix, Professor David Haskell of Wilfrid Laurier University is running for Canadian Parliament, in part, to reign in the excesses of the political left on college campuses.

Breitbart News first reported on Haskell in the aftermath of the Lindsay Shepherd debacle at Wilfrid Laurier University. Shepherd, a teaching assistant, was accused by university officials of breaking Canadian law after she showed her class a clip of Jordan Peterson on public television.

Now, Haskell is taking his student right’s advocacy to the next level. Haskell told The College Fix that he wants to put an end to identity politics in academia.

“My concerns were things like identity politics. I wanted to be able to say that we’ve got to stop the tribalism that’s developing in our country,” Haskell said, “…merit and competency should be the only criteria by which someone advances, not some external characteristic.”

In 2017, Haskell penned a column comparing the current state of academia to the environment that prompted Martin Luther’s famous 95 theses.

On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s heretical act, I’m overwhelmed by the sense that half a millennium later, history is repeating itself and this time Canada, not Germany, is the site of the action. Many of our politicians, academics, and national journalists have joined together, sometimes informally but increasingly by design, to enforce a cultural hegemony.

Theirs is a left-leaning hegemony informed by cultural Marxism. Evidence of its Marxist pedigree is its total intolerance of dissenting views. Professor Herbert Marcuse, one of the key architects of cultural Marxism and a hero of today’s radical left, advised followers that when dealing with those “to the political right” they should seek to censor them outright “stopping the words and images which feed this consciousness.”

Haskell states on his campaign website that he will fight for individual freedom and personal responsibility. Haskell, who has said that his experience in academia was the primary motivator behind his run for office, will face off in a vote on October 21 for a seat in parliament.