Amazon’s arrival is nothing to celebrate

I fail to see how any business community on Vancouver Island could be happy with the new Amazon warehouse facility next to the Victoria airport.

There may be jobs being “created” there, but they’re going to cost jobs elsewhere, by making it even harder for our local businesses to compete with the Amazon juggernaut.

Oh sure, the landowner benefits, as do the construction workers (temporarily) during construction, but this is not a net “job creator.”

It’s going to continue the globalization hollowing-out of local communities.

Martin Simmons Victoria