Canadian Joe Slupsky is running for a seat in British parliament.

For the past 19 years, the native of Edmonton has lived in Liverpool, England, where he earned his PhD in medicine and now works as a prominent cancer researcher.

But after the U.K.’s Brexit referendum in 2016, he decided to enter politics.

“My family is deeply affected by Brexit. My wife is German and there’s this imminent threat of deportation,” he said, referring to the hundreds of thousands of EU citizens who are still awaiting confirmation that they can remain in the U.K. after Brexit.

“This is a country that we’ve decided to make our home, to grow old and and to live — and now that is being threatened.”

Slupsky is a federal candidate for the Liberal Democrats, which is fiercely opposed to Brexit and campaigning for a second referendum. The party is expected to finish third in the election, well behind the Conservatives and Labour Party, but it could hold the balance of power in a hung (minority) parliament.

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