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Toronto’s status as the lone Canadian contender in the race to land Amazon’s second North American headquarters could give the city a competitive advantage, one of the key players behind the bid said on Thursday.

Former TD Bank CEO Ed Clark, who helped spearhead Toronto’s proposal to host the multibillion-dollar headquarters, dubbed HQ2, said the city is the only one of the 20 remaining competitors who can draw upon the resources of an entire country in order to land the coveted prize.

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“Frankly, it’s helpful that we’ve now got it down to one city,” Clark told The Canadian Press. “We ought to have a Team Canada approach here, and so I think you have to make sure that the city, the province and the federal government are working hand-in-hand together to say, ‘let’s have a win for Canada.”‘

Amazon released its short list of candidate cities on Thursday, revealing that Toronto was the only Canadian city left in the running after it whittled the competition down from 238 to 20 bidders.