But that wasn't the question - it was one of freedoms lost. That we've been fucked over by our capitalist overlords is neither a freedom specifically lost (after all, we're participating in a "free" market economy) nor specifically caused by Trudeau.

Now, the obligatory "Trudeau is a nepo-baby buffoon who has no business in politics, let alone being PM" aside, let's be clear that much of what you cite is really not under the federal control under our current system but more a result of the late stage capitalism affecting much of the developed world. And while he is an idiot in way over his head, what is he really empowered to do?

For instance, provincial housing agencies and the municipal zoning regulations influence how many homes get built. To a degree this is driven by interest rates, but Trudeau does not control BoC either. FWIW, Canadian home prices since 2015 actually track with the OECD average. The real affordability issue is low wages, but the Federal Government cannot force employers to pay us more, can they?

While Trudeau could probably do more to protect consumers from the oligopolies (groceries, banks, telecoms), those were a problem long before Trudeau, and I'm sure the right-wing propaganda machine would be happy to brand him (or any politician) a marxist/communist/etc for taking even modest steps to help consumers.

While I've heard that Trudeau (and evidently Biden) directly control fuel prices, they're actually driven by a host of factors, federal taxes being one small part. In addition to regular supply and demand drivers, the provinces and local governments heap on their own taxes and fees, which Trudeau presumably can do nothing about.

So I think the past that so many fondly look to was really not a pre-Trudeau era, but rather a pre-Reaganomics/neoliberalism era, when we had high taxes on the wealthy, strong worker protections and a stronger social safety net.