Amazon just announced that it will close its Quebec facilities in the coming weeks, . This move will cut more than 1,700 jobs. The company said it will start outsourcing deliveries to smaller contractors, instead of relying on its in-house team.

“After a recent review of our operations in Quebec,” the company said in a statement, “we found that returning to a third-party delivery model supported by local small businesses, like we have until 2020, will enable us to offer the same excellent service and deliver even more savings to our customers in the long term.”

It follows a in an Amazon warehouse in Quebec. The workers join the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), which represents about 330,000 people in many Canadian industries. Amazon has reportedly fought these efforts, continuing to say that union accreditation would not “respect the interests of its employees.”

“This decision makes no sense whatsoever,” CSN president Caroline Senneville said in a statement. “Neither from a business point of view, nor from an operational point of view. Amazon, one of the most integrated companies between the click of a mouse and home delivery, surrender the all warehouses and distribution operations throughout Quebec to a third party?

Don’t worry. Amazon has said that many of the layoffs are not due to the aforementioned union, indicating that it is simply a cost-cutting measure. We should absolutely take the company at its word because it was and a . It was sarcasm.

In any event, the company is expected to close the facilities in the next two months. Employees will be given some sort of severance package, but the details have not been disclosed. Apropos of anything, Amazon is worth almost . It has doubled in value in the last year or so.