[frankus]

Reminds me of a great article on taxis in general I read last year:

http://daily.sightline.org/2011/08/05/freeing-taxis/

"What if the Northwest’s cities legally capped the number of pizza delivery cars? What if, despite growing urban population and disposable incomes, our Pizza Delivery Oversight Boards had scarcely issued new delivery licenses since 1975?"

I started talking about this with one of my Canadian friends and his response was basically that limiting the number of cabs was clearly a good thing and that it helped taxi drivers make a living. The argument that it was a bad thing for anyone trying to get into the taxi business didn't really sway him.

My general impression is that while Americans are more willing to stand aside when a market is clearly failing, Canadians are more willing to intervene when a market is clearly working.