The city of Toronto seeks to Kill Jobs and Raise Ride Sharing Prices with new vehicle-for-hire bylaw! – March 1, 2019,

The cost of living all over Canada is artificially high because of over-regulation, via the Crown Corporation known as the CMHC (Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation) which is a Government agency that will help individuals and legal entities get mortgage insurance which creates an easy lending atmosphere which of course allows any and everybody to purchase properties in Canada with some added security. This is, of course, hits Canadian consumers with higher mortgages, which turn into higher rents.

As far as ride sharing goes Uber, for the most part, has turned the taxicab industry into a niche and of course, their taxicab lobby group has been fighting like hell to get their share of the market back, by using the government to force Uber and other ride-sharing APPs to raise their prices. But, what is often the case is that these laws are passed in the quiet and the consumer usually doesn’t know what hits them until one day they go into their Uber and notice prices went up, now Uber in a way doesn’t have much to lose, because they’ll pass costs onto drivers and customers, but what this new vehicle-for-hire bylaw regulation really is, is it’s setting a precedence.

So as an example if you read the CBC article below, a portion of it says the following:

In separate statements, spokespeople for both Uber and its main rival, Lyft, highlighted their companies’ focus on safety during the latest round of consultations.

Cheryl Hawkes, whose 28-year-old son Nicholas Cameron was killed when the Uber he was riding in was hit by another vehicle last March, is pushing for safety as well — and to her, that means having driver training across the board.

“What I want to see, at a minimum, is there’s some time that a driver — before they hit the road taking money to transport the public — that there’s some time spent in a car, with a driving instructor,” she said.

You can read the article in its entirety by clicking the link below:
Consultations start today on Toronto’s vehicle-for-hire bylaw, but does the public care? – CBC

You can read a Toronto based article below:

Second round of public consultations begin on Toronto’s vehicle-for-hire bylaw – CP24.com

Now, the keywords regarding Cheryl Hawkes is that the Uber her 28-year old son was riding was hit by another vehicle which resulted in his death. Now, did the Uber hit the vehicle intentionally or did the other vehicle hit the uber driver? Car accidents happen all the time, I lost a childhood friend to a car accident, it’s a painful experience, but Uber is a RIDE SHARING app, keyword being ride sharing, I’m sharing my ride and with people and I want to be compensated, which is different from my entire business model revolves being a Taxicab. Uber drivers, rideshare whenever they want, for many it’s a part-time job or even a part-time experience, I know some Uber drivers that do it for the experience and don’t make much of a profit from it.

There are risks in life and quite frankly this proposal is nothing more than a consumer cash grab, I don’t use Uber personally, but what I think taxicab drivers are doing incorrectly is they’re allowing the people they work for to manipulate them, now I get it, I understand that many of them invested money, expecting a return or guaranteed returns, however if they fought for deregulation, they’d be far better, the problem I’m seeing with taxicab drivers is they’re thinking too small, they’re thinking like servants, anyway I’m not sure what to make of this, obviously I’m against it, but we’ll see how it all works out, Canada is so corrupt on some many levels that it wouldn’t surprise me if this by-law passed.

Interesting times ahead.