City of Montreal stops ordering from Amazon
Posted February 6, 2025 5:52 pm.
Last Updated February 6, 2025 5:54 pm.
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says the city will stop ordering from American giant Amazon – until further notice.
In a posting on social media Thursday afternoon, Plante indicated that the city is “combing the list of (its) suppliers to find local or international alternatives.”
“Despite the reprieve on U.S. tariffs, Montreal is not letting its guard down,” wrote the mayor. “We stand together and buy local whenever possible.”
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs of 25 per cent on Canadian products and 10 per cent on energy. Earlier this week, he postponed the implementation of these tariffs until March.
On Jan. 22, Amazon announced that it was changing its business model in Quebec, and would close all its warehouses in the province.
Including employees of these warehouses and those of subcontractors who lost their jobs in the process, some 4,600 workers are affected – according to Quebec’s Labour Ministry.
In August 2023, the Journal de Montréal reported that the City of Montreal was spending the equivalent of $1,000 every day on Amazon.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
