Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office will not say if he plans to promote Toronto’s bid for the second Amazon headquarters in his meeting Thursday with Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos. The bid, prepared by agency Toronto Global, does note the U.S. dollar goes further in Canada. Trudeau will, on the trip starting Wednesday, meet with other officials including Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner; Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Salesforce chairman and chief executive Marc Benioff; Daniel Saks, the co-founder of AppDirect, eBay chief executive Devin Wenig, Amgen chief executive Robert Bradway and California Governor Jerry Brown. If Toronto movers and shakers also seem quiet about ongoing efforts to win the Amazon headquarters, that is by design. Meanwhile University of Toronto cities expert Richard Florida is rallying fellow academics and others to urge political leaders to join a “non-aggression pact” promising not to offer huge incentives to land Amazon.

Source: thestar February 07, 2018 19:52 UTC