Why do we call Liberals Grits and Conservatives Tories?)Canada)?

Question

Does anyone know where and why these terms came into being?

Answer 1

Grits: Origins: The Liberals are descended from the mid-19th century Reformers who agitated for responsible government throughout British North America. These included George Brown, Robert Baldwin, William Lyon Mackenzie and the Clear Grits in Upper Canada, Joseph Howe in Nova Scotia, and the Patriotes and Rouges in Lower Canada led by figures such as Louis-Joseph Papineau. The Clear Grits and Parti rouge functioned as a united bloc in the legislature of the Province of Canada beginning in 1854, and a united Liberal Party combining both English and French Canadian members was formed in 1861.
Tories: Are those in the american revolution who stayed true to the britsh goverment.

Answer 2

Conservatives Tories

Answer 3

Because they are misinformed as are the conservatives who call liberals communists. No conservative in this country deserves to be called a Nazi-if you know what Nazi's did, you will know this is clearly wrong, the same is true of calling a liberal a communist-one look at Mao's China and Stalin's Russia will assure even a third grader, that no one who is a liberal in the US is anywhere close to being this heinous.

Answer 4

Tories means loyalist in the American Revolution, Canada was a loyalist nation. Grits was formed from someone who made up the slogan, "all sand no dirt, clear grit all the way through." They wanted universal male sufferage.

Answer 5

What was the blue party

Answer 6

uhhh because that's what canadians do?