Quebec's provincial taxi development committee is the latest transportation group reacting to the arrival of Uber.

The group recently met with provincial transportation Robert Poeti and said it will work to modernize the industry throughout the province in the mobile phone era.

The arrival of Uber, the app that allows customers to hail taxis through their phones and to pay the same way, has been a disruptive element for taxi companies.

Some, such as Diamond Taxi, have responded by creating their own app to give customers more control. This week another company announced it was creating a Montreal-based app called Paxi that would work with multiple taxi companies.

Meanwhile Dominique Roy of Diamond Taxi said that UberX has created an unfair playing field.

UberX is one of the services offered by Uber and consists of people with normal driver's licences, and not a special taxi licence, operating as a taxi.

"You have to have a permit in order to transport taxi customers," said Dominque Roy. "You cannot become a taxi driver like you become a pizza delivery guy."

UberX drivers do not have the extra insurance that is required of taxi drivers, and are not driving vehicles that have been registered as taxis with municipal taxi bureaus.

With Uber's sliding scale for payments based on demand, many UberX drivers only make themselves available on an occasional basis.

Taxi companies say the province needs to act more forcefully to get UberX drivers off the road, or force them to submit to the same regulations as other passenger-carrying drivers.

"You need insurance, car inspections, and so many rules that have to be followed, and I think Uber and all the other so-called ride share companies have to follow the rules," said Roy.

Earlier this summer Montreal police impounded vehicles being used by UberX drivers.

Since then Uber has offered to pay the city 10 cents for every ride taken by its customers -- which would be far less than the approximately $200,000 the city demands for a taxi operation medallion.

Montreal is also insisting that all taxis operating in the city accept debit and credit card payments by Oct. 19.

Aeroports de Montreal is also requiring drivers who have approval to pick up passengers from the airport submit to a dress code and use vehicles than are less than four years old,