ABSTRACT
Following more than two years (2014–2016) of illegal taxi transport activity, an unprecedented temporary regulatory mechanism was negotiated between the multinational company Uber and the Government of Quebec. This regulatory and institutional experimentation resulted in the layering and coexistence of old and new rules. Why and how was this compromise reached? What actions were taken by the traditional actors to deal with this disruption? What was the courts’ response? And what lessons can be learned from this experience? Will this experimentation lead to a re-regulation of the regulatory framework? If so, will this re-regulation be based on the founding framework on which the industry was built several decades ago or on something new? We will seek to answer these questions.
