He defeated incumbent Member of Parliament and former Alberta Premier Charles Stewart to win the new Jasper—Edson electoral district.

Kuhl would stand for re-election in the 1940 Canadian federal election this time under the New Democracy banner.

Kuhl would be defeated in the 1949 Canadian federal election by Liberal candidate John William Welbourn.

During his time in Parliament, he tried to get Canada a new and distinctive flag and constitution, introducing a private member's bill to amend the British North America Act.

Kuhl's arguments implied that the federal government had no taxation authority - which formed a basis to refuse to pay income tax - and that all other government jurisdictions remained with the provinces; in subsequent decades, these concepts were used as references by Canadian tax protester and pseudolaw communities, which eventually gave birth to the "Detaxer" and freeman on the land movements.