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App company Uber is getting a lot of attention in Ottawa, but at least one cab driver isn’t too worried.

“It depends what the public thinks about their safety. . . . It’s your life, you make your choice,” said Daniel Simil, 38, who has been driving a taxi for about two years, renting his taxi plate from its owner and working almost every night.

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People will have to make up their minds about how insurance for taxis and Uber drivers compares, for example, Simil said. He’s also following government responses, not only in Ottawa, but throughout the world where regulators are trying to crack down on the company for not following taxi rules.

But since UberX started up in Ottawa earlier this month at least one other taxi driver, who asked not to be named, has gone against taxi union and Uber rules to work for both at the same time. Faced with bills of almost $2,000 each month to operate a taxi, the driver said he was only left with about $1,300 to take home in September, and even less after buying gas.