Canadian government may review relationship with Amazon following Quebec closures

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/federal-government-may-review-relationship-with-amazon-following-quebec-closures/

19 Comments

  1. kirklandcartridge on

    “may review”

    In other words, they’ll do nothing.

    Plus, let’s be realistic. Champagne and the rest of these Liberals won’t be in power for much longer, so anyone who thinks anything they say now is relevant is delusional. This is the very definition of a LAME DUCK government.

  2. Itchy_Training_88 on

    So they should.

    Provinces should have solidarity on issues like this.

    They obviously are pulling out of Quebec as a punishment for them voting to go union, and using it as a veiled threat to any others who think about organizing.

    We have laws against retaliation for labour organizing.

    INB4 the anti union apologists reply to me saying that’s not the reason they are leaving, or that governments can’t force a business to operate.

  3. Ah more lip service from the Government that will do nothing but bring in more cheap labour for Amazon.

  4. They should be forced to open the books to actually show that the Quebec market was unprofitable if they want to use that as an excuse to get around unionization retaliation.

    EDIT: *To be fair* (before the corporate bootlickers get their pitchforks out) they never explicitly said it was about profitability, I suppose:

    >Amazon says it plans to return to its third-party model, “supported by small local businesses” for package deliveries.

    >“This is something we already had in Quebec, we had it in place until 2020,” said Agrait. “We believe it’s going to allow us to provide the same great business to our customers.”

  5. It’s tough to buy local products when they’re 50% more expensive than what you can find on Amazon or at Walmart.

  6. coconutpiecrust on

    Yes, review it, thanks. And don’t just review, tax/fine them or something. Also let’s invest in our own Amazon, please. 🙂

  7. I dropped Amazon about 18 months ago. I was never getting that good of quality. They are a blight.

  8. Quebec and the other provinces need to adopt a German approach to industrial relations. Unions as of right, sector-based negotiations. Add Danish “flexi security”.

  9. More jobs if we can replace them and more businesses replace the codependency we have on US owned suppliers.

  10. Good, the other warehouses should unionize as well.

    I cancelled my Amazon subscription.

    US companies really be speed running destroying their reputations up here. Which is fantastic, maybe we’ll actually get some Canadian competition