Amazon looking for a location to have a 2nd HQ

[peekay]

33 minutes ago, franktko said:

It could be the distribution centers, no?

 

i believe so too. But he was insisting it wasn't. Anyway, I will know more next week when I go to Toronto. 

[rufus96]

Toronto is already the location of Amazon's Canadian HQ and they've been adding jobs (hundreds of jobs) to both Toronto and Vancouver in recent months. A hiring spree would be in keeping with this trend, without necessarily being HQ2 related. They recently added ~2,000 jobs to their Boston offices prompting some to claim that HQ2 was in the bag. Could be. But could just be aggressive expansion.

[mont royal]

Ontario is already seeing how its dependence on the American-dominated aut0- manufacturing business is making them vulnerable As Trump threatens additional tariffs there.  50, 000 new employees under American control would only deepen their branch-plant dependence. We have some of that same effect here, but we are nowhere near as vulnerable as Ontario. 

[Rusty]

Im still amazed how Quebec gets overlooked by Amazon in particular  ....  

[greenlobster]

Amazon overhead costs are sky rockiting, new competition will eat them alive 5 to 7 years from now . So which City really wants thé poisined prize. 

[Rocco]

1 hour ago, greenlobster said:

Amazon overhead costs are sky rockiting, new competition will eat them alive 5 to 7 years from now . So which City really wants thé poisined prize. 

Seems like someone had a bad experience with Amazon 

[andre md]

10 hours ago, Rocco said:

Seems like someone had a bad experience with Amazon 

Amazon pour beaucoup de chose ils ne sont absolument pas compétitif.

Les pièces de voitures ils ne l'ont pas du tout. Les outils non plus.

 

[ToxiK]

Il y a 9 heures, YMQ a dit :

Why would Amazon come to Montreal, how much of their business is in french? We're really content with some pretty sh*tty results,

Well, in Québec most of our business is done in French, and we are not about to change that to please a company (nor, for that matter, to confort people in other provinces that are not happy that we didn't assimilated in the conquerers language yet...).

If Amazon doesn't find our talent pool and our cities good enough for their needs, then let find others who would.  Or better yet, built our own companies.

It would have been nice if they chose Montréal, and we need to do some accomodations to attract business, but we definitely don't need to sell our soul.

[acpnc]

Il y a 2 heures, ToxiK a dit :

Well, in Québec most of our business is done in French, and we are not about to change that to please a company (nor, for that matter, to confort people in other provinces that are not happy that we didn't assimilated in the conquerers language yet...).

If Amazon doesn't find our talent pool and our cities good enough for their needs, then let find others who would.  Or better yet, built our own companies.

It would have been nice if they chose Montréal, and we need to do some accomodations to attract business, but we definitely don't need to sell our soul.

Sur celle-là je suis tout à fait d'accord avec toi, donc je t'ai notifié un trophée

[IluvMTL]

ToxiK is right.

Many large companies (and non-French speaking potential immigrants) simply bypass Quebec as a place to live and work.  We are not on their radar. The added effort/costs/regulations/limitations required to learn/work in a second language that is basically not needed to serve the rest of the other 570 million  inhabitants of North America will always be a challenge/problem for us. That is the choice/cost of preserving French and shunning English.

The whole saga over over Bonjour/hi and Pastagate reinforces this idea abroad. The charter of values and CAQ immigration proposals do not help. Read this week's Washington Post article and the comments. We are not being painted as a very welcoming society by these events.You have to try and see Quebec from the outside, how these measures are being interpreted.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/28/political-party-vying-quebec-election-promises-kick-out-immigrants-who-fail-values-test/?utm_term=.6d7caf5685f5

The sooner everyone accepts that Quebec has their own restrictions (that limit our competition with other English-speaking cities) the better. In Canada companies and people naturally gravitate to Ontario (Toronto, Ottawa,...)  and points west. Growth spurts growth. Our population is ageing quickly and stagnating due to low birth rates and lower immigration, while others grow. Quebec news is now rarely reported on a regular basis, especially business news. even in the rest of Canada. It's as if we are already a separate state.