Also: Alberta’s election campaign enters its second week and the Senate prepares to head out West
For at least the next month during the Alberta election, we’re bumping up our Western Canada newsletter to two issues per week – the same Saturday newsletter that you know and love, with an added mid-week edition on Wednesdays.
We’ve had a lot of Alberta election coverage lately – and we’ve got more great stuff coming this weekend – so why don’t we start in B.C. and the never-ending debate about transportation apps such as Uber.for the past seven years, and it’s easy to see why. Vancouver is probably one of the least car-dependent cities in Canada, and even many people who drive don’t own their own cars, with car-sharing flourishing services flourishing.
The New Democrats came to power in 2017 on a promise to regulate such services by the end of that year. The deadline came and went, and now B.C. Premier John Horgan has a new timeline: the end ofThe legislature passed a law regulating ride-hailing services last year and is now working on regulations, but that hasn’t been easy.
An all-party committee of the legislature assigned to examine ride-sharing hasn’t even been able to agree on what type of driver’s licence operators should hold. The government says drivers should be required to have a commercial Class 4 licence – the kind taxi drivers have – but the legislature committee argued a standard Class 5 licence should be enough.
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