Six municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area have banded together in a bid to woo online retailing giant Amazon.com Inc. to set up shop in the region.
Civic leaders from Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Durham Region, Halton Region and York Region have issued a letter pledging a joint bid to be the home of Amazon’s planned second North American headquarters, which the company has dubbed HQ2 and suggests could host 50,000 employees.
Leading the combined bid team will be Mark Cohon, a former CFL commissioner and son of McDonald’s Canada founder George Cohon, and Janet Ecker, a former Conservative MPP and cabinet member under premier Mike Harris.
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By Shane Dingman. Read the whole article at The Gobe and Mail.