09-07-2017, 10:18 PM
(09-07-2017, 09:18 PM)DHLawrence Wrote: Looks like Vancouver has expressed interest anyway - along with Halifax, Calgary, Ottawa, and TO.
Other than Toronto, none of those are much closer to the 1M people mark (or labour market size) that Amazon suggested than Waterloo Region.
In any case, if I were running a city that's interested, I would put together an attractive package but without multi-billion-dollar incentives. Either Amazon would be interested in our city primary for its benefits (location, site availability, transportation, tech workforce -- and far lower costs than Seattle), or not. In the latter case, government largesse to corporations just doesn't make sense, and we should not propose such.