Amazon Canada is closing all of its warehouses in Quebec, and it will affect approximately 1,700 employees and 350 seasonal workers.

E-commerce giant Amazon.com is exiting its operations in the Canadian province of Quebec, leading to the loss of about 1,700 full-time jobs, the company said on Wednesday, prompting Ottawa to express its unhappiness.

OTTAWA — Quebec Premier François Legault says his government will be “very, very careful” with the border because it does not want to “end up with a new Roxham” after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to expel migrants.

Amazon.com Inc. will shut down all warehouses and lay off employees in the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec.

Hundreds of Amazon employees in Quebec are left to pick up the pieces following the shutting of warehouses across the province.

E-commerce giant Amazon.com is exiting its operations in Quebec, leading to the loss of about 1,700 full-time jobs, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. The online retailer will phase out operations across seven sites in the province — the only location in Canada with unionized Amazon employees — over the next two months.

Amazon has announced it will close all of its operations in Quebec, resulting in nearly 2,000 people losing their jobs. The decision has some questioning the timing of the closure because one of the facilities had recently unionized.

In Clinton County alone, more than 10% of the population works for a Canadian or border-related employer," said Garry Douglas, President of The North Country Chamber of Commerce.

Amazon recently announced it’s closing all its operations in Quebec.This move will cut about 1,950 jobs, including 1,700 full-time workers. The company says it’s shifting back to a third-party delivery model,

The official line out of Amazon is that the decision to shut down its operations is entirely related to cost-cutting. Per a statement given to the CBC, the company reviewed its Québec operations and found “returning to a third-party delivery model supported by local small businesses,