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An accurate prediction In an interview with Newsfirst Multimedia in April 2019, the head of Montreal’s largest taxi service maintained that the region’s traditional taxi industry would cease to exist within three years after the CAQ government passed its bill to overhaul the taxi industry. “In the law which came into effect a couple of months ago, there’s not one mention of the word taxi,” he said last week, noting that the overhaul now refers to “transport rémunéré” (remunerated transportation). As he pointed out, the province’s new approach basically opens up the sector to anyone willing to provide consumers with transportation servi- ces, the most notable examples being drivers for Uber and Lyft. No more taxi permits Perhaps the biggest consequence of this is the elimination of the taxi permit system. Although Champlain Taxi president George Boussios, and his colleagues Rolland D’allaire and Hassan Kattoua (representing Montreal Taxi owners), met the remaining taxi drivers will continue to have Monday February 3rd, with well known Montreal Lawyer Julius Grey (second from left) to seek his legal advise on the matter. to pay a relatively small sum for annual certifi- cation, drivers for car sharing services like Uber is slowly getting older,” he said. and Lyft won’t be subject to this requirement. More importantly, the old taxi permits, which Uber draws younger crowd at one time were valued in six-figure sums per “Every year it’s slowly going down. The younger car and driver, have been eliminated. The drastic age group is used to the Ubers of the world, so depreciation of their value, in conjunction with obviously they’re going to go up while we go the government’s reluctance to issue decent compensation, has left many remaining permit down.” Still, despite the provincial government’s holders in hopeless circumstances. act of faith in car sharing, Boussios doesn’t see much of a future for Uber and the others. Expropriated at unfair value “There are just too many of drivers and not Taxi industry representatives had asked enough work to go around,” he said, referring the government for a total of $1.3 billion in to the number of people who are now driving compensation across the province. Instead, for car share services in cities all over the globe.