Not surprising considering the time that Tommy was part of:

Grant withdrew from Manitoba and returned to Saskatchewan where he campaigned for the Klan against Premier James Gardiner and the Liberal Party in the 1929 provincial election. After the Anderson Conservative Party victory, Grant was given a job in charge of the Weyburn Employment Bureau. Soon after the Liberal Party’s return to power in 1934, Grant was sacked from his job. However, in 1935 he came into prominence once again as one of Tommy Douglas’ Co-operative Commonwealth Federation campaign workers in the federal election of that year. [46]

http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/85/winnipegkkk.shtml

Tommy used his hatred of the Catholic Church to nationalise the medical system and ousted the nuns from benevolence society work thus removing the Catholic hospital system.

I always felt that socialism was just a pretty face to racism and used reverse rhetoric or lies to get the general population to believe that socialists were doing work on their behalf when in fact they were manned by racists.