By Carys Mills, Ottawa Citizen, September 22, 2014
City officials warned two Uber executives on Monday that the app company looking
to bring a taxi alternative to Ottawa is welcome here, but it must comply with
existing taxi regulations.Those regulations — having a broker’s licence, hiring
licensed cab drivers and using vehicles licensed as taxis — are at odds with how
Uber operates in some other cities. In some of the 200-plus cities Uber
operates, its executives have said they’re a technology service, not a cab firm,
so they shouldn’t have to comply with traditional taxi regulations. via
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