Uber Faces $410 Million Canadian Class Action Suit

farrellj writes: A class action suit has been filed by the Taxi and Limo drivers and owners in the Province of Ontario in Canada against Uber, demanding CAN$400 million in compensatory damages, $10 million in punitive damages. They claim Uber is violating the Ontario Highway Traffic Act that covers taxis and limos, and has caused them to lose money. They also seek an injunction against Uber operating in Ontario. "This protectionist suit is without merit," Uber said in a statement. "As we saw from a recent court ruling in Ontario, Uber is operating legally and is a business model distinct from traditional taxi services."

Comments

Re:We're a tech company...

[drinkypoo]

We also have laws against just randomly shooting your neighbors. Either you respect that some laws exist for good reasons or you chuck them all and live in anarchy.

Your logical fallacy is the False Dichotomy. You can also understand that laws against fraud, violence, and theft (the only real crimes) are valid, victimless crimes which are designed to produce revenue and which don't achieve their stated goals are evil (they themselves are a form of fraud, enacted to justify theft and/or violence) and laws which restrict economic activity in a society in which it is a crime to not have money (which is effectively true everywhere in the modern world) are slavery.

Re:Good

[aberglas]

Here in Oz, taxi drivers raced to the bottom long ago. It is the taxi plate OWNERS, not the drivers that hold the monopoly licenses, and cream 55% of the fares from the drivers.

Unless the Canadian situation is very different, then Uber is only a force for a bit of good.

Re:Who wrote the summary?

[farrellj]

I have a great deal of respect for the English language, but as I suffer from both Dyslexia, and ADHD, it is amazing I can express myself at all in the written word. I can't write as fast as I think, so I accidentally drop words from sentences. If it wasn't for spell check, I would be functionally illiterate.

So go ahead and kick the cripple, it's easy and fun.

Right.