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Some angry taxi drivers are threatening to stay home for a day, refuse to pick up adapted-transit customers or even set their cars on fire now that Uber has been given the green light to operate in Quebec.

Gathered in front of their union’s head office in east-end Montreal on Thursday, the drivers denounced what they called an act of betrayal by the provincial government.

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“They are opting for war,” said cabbie Hassan Kattoua. “We’ll give them a war.”

Photo by John Kenney / Montreal Gazette

Benoit Jugand, a spokesperson for the Regroupement des travailleurs autonomes Métallos, which represents about half of Montreal’s 10,000 taxi drivers, said members have a right to be angry.

He said an action plan will be put in place to protest the agreement in principle of a pilot project that will allow the ride-hailing service to continue operating.

“They want us to be calm about this? No way,” Jugand said. “We’ve been telling our members for the last year to believe in the government. But we’ve been betrayed.”