{"id":14164,"date":"2025-01-25T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T13:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/amazon-stays-course-on-quebec-shutdown-plan-despite-pressure-from-ottawa-montreal\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T13:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T13:38:48","slug":"amazon-stays-course-on-quebec-shutdown-plan-despite-pressure-from-ottawa-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/amazon-stays-course-on-quebec-shutdown-plan-despite-pressure-from-ottawa-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon stays course on Quebec shutdown plan despite pressure from Ottawa &#8211; Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Plans to close all seven of Amazon warehouses in Quebec are unchanged, the company said Friday even as the federal industry minister called for a review of Ottawa\u2019s \u201cbusiness relationship\u201d with the online retail giant.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ll have me fighting to make sure that this is not going to go unanswered in Canada,\u201d Industry Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe Champagne said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The closure will eliminate 1,700 permanent jobs and 250 temporary ones. It comes after workers at an Amazon warehouse in the Montreal suburb of Laval, Que. managed to unionize in May.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon dismissed the suggestion that the closures are linked to a unionization push in the province and has said it\u2019s about delivering efficient and cost-effective services to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Initially the company said in a media statement Friday that it\u2019s \u201chappy to discuss this matter further with Minister Champagne and other officials in Quebec and Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Champagne said in an online post Friday that he wanted to speak to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Jassy, let\u2019s talk,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h3>Get daily National news<\/h3>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But in a followup statement issued later in the afternoon, Amazon indicated that Champagne won\u2019t be getting a sit-down with the company\u2019s global CEO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of Amazon\u2019s local team will continue to meet with the minister to discuss our business \u2014 as we typically do. Our plans remain unchanged,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Canada<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Champagne hasn\u2019t said how the federal government might respond. The federal government\u2019s website lists more than 200 contracts signed with Amazon since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Several of those contracts are worth more than $5 million each. The biggest, a 2020-2023 deal for \u201csystems services\u201d including facilities management for the Canada Border Services Agency was for $22.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Another was for a $12.7 million deal to provide computer services to Health Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to tell them what I\u2019m going to do in advance. That\u2019s called negotiation 101,\u201d he said. \u201cLet them reconsider, let them figure out what we might do as a review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Champagne also sent a letter to Jassy saying it\u2019s not too late to reconsider the decision to close the warehouses. He posted the letter online Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<section id=\"content-dynamic-trending-stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape\" aria-label=\"Dynamic trending stories section\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Trending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10976873\/us-foreign-assistance-new-funding-frozen\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250121140156-20250121140156-678ffc6229795b8a5c08a15fjpeg_4c3da9.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"U.S. freezes nearly all foreign aid program funding after Trump order\" data-title=\"\">U.S. freezes nearly all foreign aid program funding after Trump order<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10975590\/canada-is-not-for-sale-hat-tough-domestic-manufacturing\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250123150148-20250123120132-67927dd616571cf5d968da11jpeg.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"\u2018Canada is not for sale\u2019 hat offers tough lesson in domestic manufacturing\" data-title=\"\">\u2018Canada is not for sale\u2019 hat offers tough lesson in domestic manufacturing<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re standing up. I can tell you they were quite surprised,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we had more than one million views (on the letter) yesterday, so they\u2019re not used to that kind of response from Canada, and I\u2019m glad we did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Champagne said the company wasn\u2019t transparent about the extent of the layoffs in the conversation with Amazon, adding he got only half the story when he spoke with a representative. A spokesperson for Champagne confirmed he spoke with Amazon Canada\u2019s country manager Eva Lorenz Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is also about treating Canada with respect,\u201d he told reporters Friday. \u201cI\u2019m even less pleased than I was yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said in the statement that when it makes \u201coperational decisions like this, we generally share the news first with employees and then officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Public Services Minister Jean-Yves Duclos told reporters it\u2019s \u201cnot acceptable to punish workers\u201d because they unionized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Canada, the right to become unionized is a right that is fundamental, and is not only fundamental to the workers but fundamental to the ability of foreign companies, multinational companies, to be able to work with us in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 With files from Tara Deschamps<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 24, 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;appId=318812448281278&#038;version=v3.3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10977497\/amazon-stays-course-quebec-shutdown\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to close all seven of Amazon warehouses in Quebec are unchanged, the company said Friday even as the federal industry minister called for a review of Ottawa\u2019s \u201cbusiness relationship\u201d with the online retail giant. \u201cThey\u2019ll have me fighting to make sure that this is not going to go unanswered in Canada,\u201d Industry Minister Fran\u00e7ois-Philippe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - 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