Taxi drivers honked their horns in front of Montreal's city hall, waving signs that read 'stop illegal transportation.'
The class action, which was authorized in 2018, seeks compensation equivalent to the market value of a taxi owner's permit before Uber's 2013 arrival in Quebec and $1,000 in punitive damages for each member of the group.A trial opens Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit accusing the Quebec government of wiping out hundreds of millions of dollars in the value of taxi permits by allowing ride-hailing company Uber to operate and then by abolishing the permit system.
The lawsuit also alleges that the province's actions — including the creation of a pilot project in 2016 that legalized Uber's operations in Quebec — contributed to the further decline in the value of taxi owners' permits before they were eliminated as part of a 2019 taxi industry reform. Permits used to be bought and sold, and many new taxi drivers took out loans to purchase their right to own a taxi in the city.
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