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Quebec taxi drivers have an ultimatum for the provincial government: regulate Uber before the end of June or the taxi industry will start withholding about $10 million in taxes every month.

“We don’t want to steal this money, we’re not going to send it to tax havens,” Guy Chevrette, spokesperson for Quebec’s biggest taxi-industry lobby group, told the Montreal Gazette on Monday.

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“We’re going to deposit it (in a trust) temporarily and then give it to the government later because that money pays for government services, while what Uber is doing is purely tax evasion.”

Chevrette’s group — the Comité de concertation et de développement de l’industrie du taxi — represents Quebec taxi companies that oversee about 5,000 taxi permits.

If Quebec does not pass a law to bring Uber into line before the end of the current National Assembly session in June, taxi drivers will not forward sales taxes to the federal and provincial governments, Chevrette said.