What Vancouver’s bid for Amazon’s HQ2 looked like

On February 16, news site theBreaker got hold of a copy of the City of Vancouver's 50-page pitch for the online retailer's second headquarters. The bid book, titled Vancouver We Are Home, emphasized potential cost savings thanks to lower salaries for software engineers compared to Seattle, the cheaper Canadian loonie versus the U.S. dollar, and Canada's medicare...

On February 16, news site theBreaker got hold of a copy of the City of Vancouver’s 50-page pitch for the online retailer’s second headquarters. The bid book, titled Vancouver We Are Home, emphasized potential cost savings thanks to lower salaries for software engineers compared to Seattle, the cheaper Canadian loonie versus the U.S. dollar, and Canada’s medicare system, among other incentives.