It should be up to the people to decide on ridesharing in the province, the British Columbia Conservative Party says.
The BC Conservative Party originally called for private for-profit ridesharing in October 2017, along with other forward-looking legislation for 21st century technological advances, like autonomous vehicles.
The Party supports ridesharing in B.C., and notes that the NDP promised to table ridesharing legislation by the end of 2017. The party also suggested an immediate pilot project.
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Anderson said that instead of interfering with entrepreneurial innovation, the provincial government should step out of the way. He said the province doesnB次元官网网址檛 need another study but need to let people decide by voting with their wallets.
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Anderson rejects the BC Liberal plan of a taxpayer-funded app to prop up existing taxi companies, and accuses the NDP of dithering in the face of change. He believes the growth of ridesharing is inevitable regardless of any government efforts to throw roadblocks in front of ridesharing entrepreneurs, but acknowledges that we will only find out by trial and error.
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B次元官网网址淩idesharing is already growing across Canada, whether the government or the taxi companies like it or not. The Liberals did nothing, and the NDP is only slowly staggering toward real change.B次元官网网址�
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