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St-Pierre added police are in the process of identifying the people in the video. “We can’t draw any conclusions. We do not know if it is an Uber driver. We do not know if the other guy is a taxi driver. This is what we are working on right now.”

The @OttawaPolice opened up a file on this incident when it was brought to our attention. @Scott_Gilmore —

Charles Bordeleau (@ChiefBordeleau) September 13, 2015

More than 130,000 views of the one-minute-21-second-long video were logged by 11 a.m. Sunday morning on YouTube.

It appears to have been shot by the driver, capturing only part of a dispute just outside the front doors of the Fairmont Château Laurier in downtown Ottawa, a block from the Parliament Buildings.

The dark-haired man accuses the driver of operating “without insurance,” a charge regular taxi drivers have levelled repeatedly against drivers working for the Uber ride-hailing service.

In the video, the altercation becomes more heated when an unseen passenger in the backseat of the car suggests the man outside the car should find a “real f—ing argument.”

This prompts the dark-haired man, who is wearing a black shirt, cuffed jeans and a jean jacket, to open the passenger door and suggest the passenger get out and talk to him “like a man.”

The passenger and driver both stay in the car during the exchange.

“Take a real taxi you f—ing cheapskate,” says the dark-haired man, as a woman intercedes in what appears to be an effort to calm him down. At that point, the car leaves.

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There has been ongoing strife between cabbies and Uber drivers in Ottawa as the ride-hailing app has gained popularity.

Cab drivers frustrated by what they call little enforcement of bylaws prohibiting unlicensed cabs and drivers have taken to posting anti-Uber videos, even posing as or filming Uber passengers at high-traffic, pickup spots in the city. Nearly 40 Uber drivers have been charged by city bylaw officers.

At the same time, some taxi drivers locked out for refusing to pay increased dispatch fees have been protesting with actions that have frustrated many in the city.

Three drivers were recently charged with attacking a Blue Line Taxi carrying a passenger as it drove past protestors blocking the Airport Parkway on Sept. 8. Police have said seven investigations had been opened after that protest.

Taxi drivers held another protest the day after that was conducted without interference to traffic flow and without violence, police said.

Mayor Jim Watson noted on Twitter late Saturday, as the video began to make waves on social media, that the city has “fast tracked” a review of taxi regulations announced at the end of August.