Scheer was in the year long leadership contest. A year!  But he remains unrecognized by the great majority of Canadians. How can that happen? The cpc badly needs a new PR firm.
 That contest was supposed to ramp up the cpc. It certainly brought in members and $$ - but the the general public went 'blaaah'. So the members and $$ obviously came from people already committed to the cpc.
The cpc is good at keeping its core voters. But lousy at extending its numbers. And scheer hasn't helped at all there.