Amazon announced on Wednesday it will close its facilities in Quebec in the coming weeks and cut more than 1,700 jobs. An Amazon spokesperson insisted that the decision was tied to cost savings and not the recent unionization of about 300 employees at a Laval,

Amazon is closing all seven of its warehouses in Quebec, resulting in nearly 2,000 layoffs over the next two months. The decision follows strained labor relations at its Laval facility, where workers successfully unionized earlier this year.