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Premier John Horgan keeps saying ride-hailing services are finally coming to B.C. this fall.

But Uber and Lyft — the biggest ride-hailing companies — say the Horgan government is proposing ridiculous regulations that will block them from entering the market. In other words, it all looks like a big sham to keep Uber and Lyft out of B.C. to the great delight of the current taxi monopoly.

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Now comes word that an NDP MLA on the legislature’s ride-hailing committee has a direct family link to the taxi business: His father owns a taxi licence!

Ravi Kahlon said Tuesday that his dad, Navroop, has owned a taxi in Victoria for 28 years. But Kahlon bizarrely said that shouldn’t disqualify him from membership on the committee, where the North Delta MLA recently grilled the vice-president of Uber at a public meeting.

“Would you feel comfortable letting your child get in a car with somebody who hasn’t done a national criminal-record check?” Kahlon asked Uber vice-president Michael van Hemmen in a shocking exchange last month.