Blue Grit

A Blue Grit, also known as a Blue Liberal or Business Liberal is a member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada or many of the provincial Liberal parties who adheres to fiscal conservatism and is supportive of pro-business policies, and thus is right-leaning fiscally and economically, but generally socially progressive. Notable Blue Grits include John Manley, Martha Hall Findlay, Paul Martin, Frank McKenna, and Roy MacLaren. The term would generally also encompass many former Progressive Conservative Party of Canada members who are now Liberals, such as David Orchard, John Herron and Scott Brison, former Red Tories who were socially progressive and found the Conservative Party of Canada, a merger of the Progressive Conservatives with the Canadian Alliance, too right-wing in its policies.