A council committee approved a recommendation on Wednesday to hold off issuing any new taxis licences until next spring.

City council approved 383 new taxi plates last year but only released a third of them, with officials saying at the time that the remainder would be issued this year.

So far this year, only seven accessible taxi plates have been given out.

Coun. Diane Colley-Urquhart says additional plates are not needed at the moment.

"The taxi drivers are having a really rough time now, making ends meet with the economy and so on. So we just got to hold off on this and see," she said.

The committee also approved keeping taxi fees stable for this year.

City council will discuss the recommendations later this month.