Well funded backers have created a social media campaign that's impossible to ignore on sites like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Youtube, and Canada's largest traditional media company being bought out by Chatham Asset Management, which set the editorial mandate for every paper under it's banner to support the party.
Plus, he's playing by a different set of rules. His supporters won't punish him for wasting taxpayer money with these by-elections, and the CPC can afford to just run election campaign after election campaign.
End of the day, there is a lot of money going into making sure CPC talking points sound like their speaking truth to power, the fact it's the powerful funding this campaign seems lost on many. But as long as they have people looking left or right, they're not looking up, and thats what really matters.
Pretty sad the folks going around claiming to be champions of common sense don't even understand a extremely basic concept like "the dose makes the poison".