…a carpooling startup called PickupPal. The idea is that people can gather on the site to find others traveling to the same places, and carpool there to save gas.
Great idea, right? Wrong. The bus companies freaked and sued under an Ontario law that limits carpoolers to traveling only from home to work and back, riding with the same driver every day and paying only by the week, among other restrictions.
Gotta protect those union jobs, you know.
The proper response for PickupPal is to set up their web site outside of CA’s jurisdiction. If the business earns enough to warrant the expense, it would be a good idea to incorporate overseas, as well as take payment in other than Canadian dollars. (I have my own preference.) You’ll lose money in transferring and converting, but less than total loss of your business, and probably less than the $11000CAN that PickupPal was fined.
(Alas, the time is past for a better response.)
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