Does the city of Toronto have a case against Uber?

Author(s): Stephen J. D'Agostino

November 19, 2014


Breakfast Television’s Kevin Frankish interviews Thomson Rogers’ municipal lawyer Stephen D’Agostino about Toronto’s effort to shut down or better regulate Uber.

The city of Toronto has a municipal code, it regulates taxi brokerages and taxi licenses. The definition of brokerages is very broad, it essentially says, if you send a taxi to pick someone up you are a brokerage, and that is what Uber is doing.

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