City reduces dependence on U.S. suppliers
A year ago, the city decided to reduce its dependence on U.S. suppliers and has been successful in dropping the number from 54 to 15.
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Chris 15:37 on 2026-02-01 Permalink
How did the journalist not ask for the dollar amount? The eliminated suppliers could have been tiny.
dhomas 10:41 on 2026-02-02 Permalink
@Chris: That was exactly my reaction when reading the article! They might have eliminated tiny little suppliers, but then still kept big suppliers like Amazon and Uline (Bezos just bribed the trump administration with the release of Melania. And the Uhleins are just terrible in general.).
The list of suppliers is public and you can see the latest version, updated 4 days ago, here:
https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/liste-des-fournisseurs
Unfortunately, the list only shows all suppliers that have had contracts of over 2000$ since 2014. It doesn’t show which are still in active use. There are “270” American companies out of 15194 entries. I put the number in quotes because they also list American companies with a “branch office” in Canada or other country as non-American companies. Ex: Uline, Amazon, HP, Dell, VMWare, FedEx, UPS, Ford, GM, Wal-Mart, McKesson, Costco, Microsoft, Home Depot, etc.
Joey 22:32 on 2026-02-02 Permalink
It would be interesting to see if unit costs have increased as a result.
Chris 22:54 on 2026-02-02 Permalink
What is the “greenwashing” equivalent for anti-americanism? 😉
Looking at their email server, they still use MS Outlook. ;(