Well I'm thinking the guy had almost 10 years to "eliminate" a program that individuals were given 2 three months postings in different areas of Canada, so what would it take 9 months to a year to wrap up, yet he didn't. You can't even argue that he couldn't when he was in minority, because with 4 years of majority, he didn't eliminate the program. It's not just talk or wishful thinking, it actually requires action.

atimavik is a Liberal party project. It gets funded when Liberals are running the federal government. It gets wound down and it's funding gets cut when the Conservatives are in charge. That it survives as a shell with funding from Quebec until the next time the federal Liberals can revive funding for their pet project doesn't make it any less of a Liberal party pet project.

Yeah, except that from 2006 to 2010 it received around $19 million a year in funding which was then cut to $15 million in funding. No doubt the Conservatives under Harper didn't want to spend as much as the Liberals on this program, but they did indeed spend considerably more than $150 million keeping this program alive during their tenure. Doesn't quite tell of being a Liberal pet project now does it.

You might notice I'm not saying anything about it being "good" or "bad" in terms of what it does or it's goals.

Yet you attempt to undermine the accomplishments of the program (it's not a nation building program), trying to frame it as a Liberal party project, when very clearly it's a national program that has received funding from successive federal governments of both Liberal and Conservative stripes. This is especially egregious when you very obviously want to ignore continuous and substantial government funding from 1994 to the present, as if Harper didn't actually fund the program. Secretly he may have wanted it gone, publically he may have wanted it gone. But unlike the per voter subsidy say, Katimavik still rolled on with his support. Wouldn't have been hard for him to eliminate if he had the will, yet you wish for someone else to believe he cancelled it. Sorry, I have to respectfully disagree with you here.