Uber competitor Lyft begins offering rides in Montreal
Ride-hailing company Lyft has begun offering rides to customers in Montreal and several other Quebec cities.
Uber's largest North American competitor began offering rides in the province on Tuesday, several weeks after it began recruiting Quebec drivers to its platform.
While offering its ride-hailing service in Quebec might be new, Mylène Tassy, Lyft's Quebec general manager and the head of the company's enterprise division in the province, said the company isn't new to Quebec. In 2022, it acquired PBSC Urban Solutions, now renamed Lyft Urban Solutions, which sells the bicycle-sharing system equipment used by Bixi in Montreal and others worldwide.
'For a while, we've been working with regulators, stakeholders, leveraging what we already know, because we have two offices ... in Montreal and Longueuil with 100 employees, in order to do it well and to do it at the right time,' Tassy said.
The expansion seemed like a logical next step, she said, describing it as complementary to bike-sharing and other ways of getting around the city.
'Lyft is operating successfully already in multiple cities in the States. It's operating also in Toronto. Montreal is the second-largest city in Canada, so it just makes sense to also offer Lyft ride share in Montreal,' Tassy said.
The company has been operating in Toronto and Ottawa since 2017 and expanded to Vancouver in early 2020. It began operating in Calgary and Edmonton in 2023.
'Competition is good — it gives the customer the luxury of choice, and it makes us improve our services,' Tassy said.
This story was originally published June 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM.
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