MONTREAL - A Montreal taxi driver will have to wait another week to hear his judgment.
Arieh Perecowicz is fighting a series of fines that totalled $1,400 for having 'unnecessary personal objects' in his vehicle.
The judge hearing the case decided Tuesday to postpone delivering his judgment until February 17.
Those personal objects include a Canadian flag, a poppy, photos of his children and religious icons.
Perecowicz says that in his 45-year-long career nobody has ever complained about his having personal effects in his taxi.
"There are 20,000 taxi drivers driving taxis just on the island," said Perecowicz.
"When I asked [taxi bureau inspectors] in cross-examination, there are none, there are no tickets" that had ever been issued under the little-known bylaw.
"Did anybody else get a ticket? The court doesn't have any."
Perecowicz argues that his problems began several years ago following an interview that appeared on CTV Montreal in December 2006.
At the time he was complaining about taxi drivers that were operating without permits.
He says that two days after the interview, he was visited by inspectors from the Taxi Bureau and asked to remove his personal items.
Perecowicz has been representing himself in court, and as his defence argued that his taxi is a private space which he shares with the public.
