Lobbying Activity Report

2018-37670

Organization: Lyft Canada Inc.
Associated registration: 9067-2018-27
Lobbying Activity date: 2024-09-19
Arranged a meeting: No
Posted date: 2024-10-15

In-house lobbyists who participated in the lobbying activity: Jeffrey Brandt
Elizabeth Gallagher
Doug Mehan
Senior Public Office Holders who were lobbied in this activity: Reg Bawa, Assistant Deputy Minister
Policy, Programs & Partnerships Division, Transportation and Infrastructure

Melanie Tucker, Manager
Strategic Policy and Legislation Branch, Transportation and Infrastructure

Jeremy Wood, Executive Director
Strategic Policy and Legislation Branch, Transportation and Infrastructure
 
Subject Matter of the Lobbying Activity
Specific Topics of Lobbying Communications Intended Outcomes Associated Subject Matters
Educating policy-makers and regulators on the social and economic benefits of ridesharing in British Columbia and the Lyft business model, including how drivers' earnings are calculated. This is important since we are by law required to submit driver earnings to the Passenger Transportation Board (PTB) as a condition of our provincial licence. We want to ensure that if PTB (PTB) data is shared in aggregation to the Ministry of Labour that it is properly understood, and that the rideshare business model and how it differs to the taxi model is also well understood. The goal is to inform any decisions that are being made around earnings regulation or the Employment Standards Act.
  • Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly
  • Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation
  • Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
 Economic Development and Trade, Employment and Training, Industry, Labour/Labour Relations, Municipal Affairs, Transportation
Working with regulators to have them understand the challenges that exist for rideshare in the BC market. Working on educating government on challenges of the commercial licence requirement, and what changes could be made to make it more relevant and applicable to the rideshare industry. This pertains primarily to the Transportation Network Services legislation and influencing regulatory amendments to some of the requirements on rideshare companies.
  • Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation
 Transportation
 
Senior officer who filed this Lobbying Activity Report: Christopher Reilly
 
The above name is that of the most senior paid officer who is responsible for filing a Lobbying Activity Report for the organization (the Designated Filer), whether that person participated in this lobbying activity or not.
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