Amazon is open to talks with officials from the Canadian and Quebec governments about the decision to shut down operations in the country’s French-speaking province, which would lead to 1,700 people losing their jobs, The Wall Street Journal’s Paul Vieira reports. The company’s declaration comes after Canadian Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne warned Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in a letter that the federal government would review its business ties with Amazon’s cloud-computing arm, AWS. “We regularly have discussions with officials across Canada to discuss matters of interest,” an Amazon spokesman said. “We’re happy to discuss this matter further with Minister Champagne and other officials in Quebec and Canada.”
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