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The B.C. Liberals have come out in support of taxi drivers who want their operating areas to match those that are being put in place for ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft.

“As Vancouver becomes the last major North American city to get ride-hailing, it is time to take a look at our transportation networks as a whole, scrap antiquated taxi boundaries, and enter the 21st century,” said Richmond-Queensborough B.C. Liberal MLA Jas Johal.

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Johal and others have accused the NDP of failing to keep their promise to create a level playing field for taxi and ride-hailing companies.

However, the province’s transportation minister said decisions about operating areas, along with fleet sizes and rates for ride-hailing companies, rest with the Passenger Transportation Board.

“The Passenger Transportation Board is an independent body. We do not direct what they say, and would not want to. I think it’s very good to have a regulated market in the way that we have a regulated market,” Claire Trevena said.