In addition to the roughly 2,000 employees laid off by Amazon after the company announced it would be closing its Quebec warehouses, more than 2,500 other people employed by smaller carriers subcontracted by the company have also lost their jobs.

Amazon may be closing its warehouses in Quebec to send a warning to unions, but it still has to get packages to customers. For a company that thrives on controlling warehouses, this retreat may be more costly than it seems.

The official line out of Amazon is that the decision to shut down its operations is entirely related to cost-cutting. Per a statement given to the CBC, the company reviewed its Québec operations and found “returning to a third-party delivery model supported by local small businesses,

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Amazon couldn’t shut down just the unionized Laval warehouse, “so the remaining option was to nuke their entire Quebec operations,” says McGill University’s Barry Eidlin.

Unions had gained a foothold in one of the company’s warehouses in the province, though Amazon would not say if there was a connection.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Amazon’s DXT4 warehouse is seen in Laval, Quebec, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The ...

In 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada found the company defied Quebec labour law when it shut down after unionization. Barry Eidlin, an associate professor of sociology at McGill University, said Amazon shutting down solely its Laval warehouse would have ...

The online retail giant said the move was not linked to recent unionization efforts by workers in the Canadian province.

The Montréal Roses have confirmed they will be playing their inaugural season of the Northern Super League at Centre Sportif Bois-de-Boulogne in Laval.

After Amazon announced last week it was closing its operations in Quebec, laying off roughly 2,000 employees, it seems the number of people losing their jobs is much higher. According to Quebec’s Labour Ministry,

In recent days, the case of the Ottawa Senators has been widely discussed. After announcing that the club would play in Quebec as part of the upcoming preseason schedule, owner Michael Andlauer publicly expressed a desire to play real games in Quebec.