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“Let’s look at Uber and ride sharing and how that fits into transportation laws the pre-date Global Positioning System, cell phones and smart phones and cellular technology”, Plouffe said.

But Plouffe says Uber isn’t in competing for a “stagnant small taxi pie” but attempting to grow a market that is an alternative to private cars and public transit that will improve municipalities. In France, Uber recently suspended Uberpop after violent taxi protests that led to tire-burning and the indictment of two Paris-based executives.

The manager of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign made his pitch in Montreal on Thursday after visiting Toronto and before appearing in Vancouver.

The NSW Taxi Council said it stood by its slogan and that Choice had compared a legal industry, with an illegal and unregulated one.

“If Toronto were to move forward here, we’ll have a cascading effect throughout the country”, Mr. Plouffe said Wednesday.

“If the Quebec government decides to go and legislate Uber they’re going to need to compensate the industry”, said Benoit Jugand of the union representing about 5,000 taxi drivers in the province. “They’re doing it to earn a little more income”.

Plouffe wants Quebec to follow in the footsteps of 60 other cities in the United States.

“We are looking at the implications of this ruling which hurts hundreds of our driver-partners and tens of thousands of people who have come to rely on UberPOP to get around Brussels safely and affordably, ” Uber spokesperson Filip Nuytemans told AFP. The taxi industry has to have commercial insurance, has to have a plate from the city and has to have a professional driver”, the driver said.

That means Uber can provide a lot more information to police than they would normally have, he said. One driver was taken to the hospital after being run over.

“We are cashless”, he added. He’s put out the call to not only the taxi industry, but to residents as well, to meet at his Islington Avenue constituency office to show City Council the “lawlessness of the wild west has no place in Toronto“.

Cabbies held yet another protest in Toronto on Wednesday.

“Uber is making a huge impact on people, helping them increase their wages.”

Plouffe said he’s “hopeful and confident” that Uber will be regularized in Toronto.

“Fourteen months ago, [Uber regulation] was nowhere in the world”.