Outlaw Uber use, speakers urge Committee

“Buy Canadian” should mean Taxi and local, not Uber and Lyft, De Baeremaeker, Hubbard suggest

Taxi News will have more video and coverage later on March 19th.

Toronto Taxi firms wasted no time this morning in politely pointing out the irony in Toronto developing an Economic Action Plan in Response to United States Tariffs and encouraging everyone to shop Canadian, after most of these same Councillors voted to legalize Uber in 2016.

However, both Glenn DeBaeremaker for Co-op Cabs and Kristine Hubbard of Beck Taxi are supportive of the Mayor’s proposed Action Plan. DeBaeremaeker would like to see the barring of Uber use by staff strengthened from a “recommendation” to a “direction.”