Amazon Willing to Discuss Quebec Shutdown With Canadian Officials

OTTAWA—Amazon.com said it is open to talks with officials from the Canadian and Quebec governments about the company’s decision to shut down operations in the country’s French-speaking province, which would lead to 1,700 people losing their jobs.

The company’s overture comes after Canadian Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne warned Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy in a letter that the federal government would review its business ties with Amazon’s cloud-computing arm, Amazon Web Services, or AWS. The unit has secured over $50 million in work from various federal departments since 2020, according to a database of awarded government contracts.