Neoliberals want that the entity controlled by voters - the elected government/president/whatever (depending on country) - to not watch over or control the things which are important for Money (in their parlance, to “not interfere with the Free Market”, which in turn justifies privatising everything).

In other words, to make the Power which is controlled by voters be below the Power Of Money.

They’re against Democracy and in favor of Oligarch with “democracy” as a theatrical façade focused only on Moral subjects and not doing anything at all for other things which constrain the Freedom of most people.

Notice how the more hard-core Neoliberal the mainstream “center”-“left” parties in a country are (and the one Canada is pretty hard-core compared to most of Europe, tough even then not quite at the level of the Democrats in the US) the more their entire public political fight with the (Fascist) “center”-right is in the Moral space (Identity Politics) and the less it is in terms of freedoms which are limited by the control of Money over everything required for survival (with productive and shelter assets being owned mainly by a handful of people, so the rest are forced to toil within conditions controled the former group merely to have food and shelter).

In summary, they shrink “Democracy” down to a system that represents voters in the Moral sphere only where they loudly “battle” the “right” and everything else important to voters is controller not by a system where every person has one and only one vote and all votes count the same, but by a system where each dollar is a “vote” and some people have billions more “votes” than others - in other words, it’s not Democracy anymore because in most domains the vote which is equal for all individuals controls nothing at all.

I’m not fully familiar with the politics in Canada (though what I’ve seen of the Liberals is basically what I describe above), but all of this shit is painfully obvious in both the US and Britain, plus it has already infiltrated the rest of Europe to quite an extent (especially the EU, since Neoliberals use its supranational powers which are supposedly to facilitate Trade Integration, to force Neoliberal policies on countries, especially those in the Eurozone).

Anyways, all this to say that the increasing Authoritarianism you see in the more Neoliberal countries is the mainstream “center” parties which control power making sure they can detect and subvert early any civil society movements which might wrestly power away from them - in other words, the final destruction of whatever is left of Democracy and the path which is still left through the vote to undo the Oligarchic system (which would require the mainstream parties to lose most of their vote to alternatives naturally born from the civil society which weren’t just puppets created by wealthy individuals, something which already is very difficult in countries with First Past The Post systems and which total civil society surveilance is meant to make impossible)

Both sides are equally authoritarian once in control.

Always has been…