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against a rising tide of nativist sentiment in the province in the 1920s. While the Ku Klux Klan gained a foothold in the province--the organization had 25,000 members in Saskatchewan by 1929--and fomented discriminatory attitudes towards French, Catholic, and Eastern European settlers, Premier Gardiner defended his government's immigration policies and called the Klan both a foreign entity and a tool of the provincial Conservative Party.

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