The judge accepted that the arrival of Uber did serious financial harm to Ottawa cabbies, but did not rule on damages
Protest signs lean against a fence with a Canadian flag stuck in the top during a taxi driver rally protesting against the ride sharing service Uber in February, 2016 on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.An Ontario Superior Court judge sided with taxi drivers in their class-action lawsuit against the City of Ottawa, finding that the municipality failed to prepare for the arrival of Uber or to stand up to the company as it operated illegally a decade ago.
The lawsuit is seeking $215-million. . The plaintiffs – who represent 768 people with nearly 1,200 taxi plates – will have to return to court to establish what losses they suffered.“We have a new mayor, we have new councillors,” said Marc André Way, president of the Canadian Taxi Association. He is also chief executive officer of Coventry Connections, which in 2022 had 63 taxi plates, according to the decision, and he had 99 himself.
Although Uber is now a widely established and well-used transportation provider, the lawsuit deals with the period from 2014 to 2016. A decade ago, Uber was still an upstart pushing into cities worldwide, ignoring bylaws and sparking huge protests from the taxi industry. “Therefore, I have no difficulty in finding that the city knew or ought to have known that failure to enforce the 2012 by-law against Uber resulted in reasonably foreseeable harm to the plaintiffs.”
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