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Amazon is looking into investing up to $1 billion in Quebec, according to a provincial government document obtained by La Presse.

Montreal was quickly eliminated from the race to host Amazon’s second headquarters, but it would seem the U.S. e-commerce giant might have other projects in mind for the province.

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The investment could come through its cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which opened its first data centre in the Montreal region in 2016.

The heavily redacted document, obtained by La Presse through an access to information request, points out the investment could reach up to $1 billion over a 10-year period.

Part of the money would be reserved for the hiring of executive staff, managers, engineers (mainly in software development), accountants, and specialized legal and administrative staff.

Amazon, which could not comment on this story, already has three offices in Canada: in Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg.

Amazon has tried to keep the location of its Quebec data centre under wraps, but it’s an open secret it’s building the 155,000-square-foot centre in Varennes, on a vast piece of land previously owned by Hydro-Québec.