Canada has warned Amazon.com that it is reviewing business ties with the company’s cloud-computing unit following Amazon’s decision to shut down its warehouses in Quebec, leading to the layoff of 1,700 workers.

Amazon facilities in Quebec will close in the coming weeks and 1,700 jobs will go with it. The company, which is set to outsource deliveries to smaller contractors, said the decision is due to cost savings and not he recent unionization of about 200 employees at a Laval,

Amazon.com Inc. announced on Wednesday that it will close all its Quebec warehouses and lay off about 1,700 full-time employees — a move the union representing workers at the e-commerce behemoth’s only unionized Canadian facility called a “slap in the face for all workers in Quebec.”

Amazon Canada announced they will be closing all seven of their warehouses in Quebec, resulting in a staff layoff over the next two months. The decision came following a difficult relationship between Amazon and unionized labour workers in Laval,

Amazon Canada says it will close all of its Quebec warehouses and lay off nearly 2,000 staff over the next two months. The e-commerce giant positioned the move as a way to provide "even more savings to our customers over the long run" and dismissed concerns that it was linked to a recent unionization push in the province.

Amazon announced this morning that it is pulling out of Quebec. Over the next two months Amazon be will shutting down several centres of operation – a fulfillment centre, three delivery stations, two sorting centres, and an AMXL delivery station including the one in Lachine.

Amazon.com said it is closing its warehouses in Quebec and returning to a third-party delivery model, a move which the province's labor representatives called an attack on employees and the union.

Amazon will cut more than 1,700 jobs in the coming weeks. A spokesperson says the company will outsource deliveries to smaller contractors. It insists the decision was linked to cost savings and not the recent unionization of Laval warehouse employees.

A Unifor spokesperson says workers at Amazon's Windsor, Ont., facility have expressed interest in unionizing. In 2021, when the company announced five new facilities in Quebec, it said it was eager to expand its operations in the province, touting the need to respond to greater demand and speed up delivery times.

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