Get your popcorn ready, Canada's going to set Uber on fire.

According to the article (and what I can make of it via Google Translate) this is for tax reasons, because Canada considers Uber Canada an employer and it must collect tax.

I honestly don't understand why they would bother doing this what with an almost certain Obstruction of Justice charge and the fact that it's pretty obvious that money goes from people to workers via Uber.

I don't know anything about the formal structure of working as an Uber driver, but could Uber make the argument that their drivers work for the passengers and that Uber merely facilitates the connecting of drivers to passengers?

I think Canada's revenue service wanted to obtain evidence that money went through Uber from consumers to employees. If it were possible to pay any Uber rider directly (perhaps with a separate payment to Uber) then Canada couldn't call Uber drivers "employees." But they are, really. Uber processes the transaction and skims some off the top while passing on the rest to a driver. So Uber drivers are employees in Canada (or will be soon, at any rate)

That's quite an autocorrect snafu.

Um, yeah. I guess I had it coming, with the length of that comment and my inability to check my writing.