The media have a role to play in this.  First they have to broadcast the Trudeau government's antics loudly and persistently.  They have to make sure the public are fully informed.  Then the public will become suitably outraged and hold the government's feet to the fire.  

But milquetoast columns such as this one do little to inform.  "Gee, will they notice?"  Neutering the PBO is big and it's bad.  The media should be screaming this from the rooftops.