The lawsuit brought by former holders of Quebec taxi permits alleges the government expropriated their property without proper compensation when it abolished those permits.
A trial begins Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit brought by former holders of Quebec taxi permits who allege the provincial government effectively expropriated their property without proper compensation when it abolished those permits. Quebec taxi drivers protest against new legislation to deregulate the industry, in Montreal, Friday, April 5, 2019.
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.
Then in 2019, years after Uber started operating in Quebec, the government adopted a law abolishing the permit system and loosened other regulations. And while the government compensated permit holders, their lawyers allege many of them received around $150,000 less than the market value of the permits before Uber’s arrival in the province.
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