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Originally Posted by Acajack
Agreed. In some cases it is definitely possible.
But to the point where it will actually give Ottawa the upper hand over Montreal is future retail implantations?
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Ottawa is becoming a bigger, more attractive city for business investment and the trend will continue, while language laws in Québec keep getting tighter and tighter making Montreal more of a pain to do business.
Both the Nordstrom and Saks introduction to Canada might be the start of a new era where Ottawa attracts more new business than Montreal. It is still early in the introduction of these stores. Nordstrom could announce more locations before the opening of the Ottawa store (although I doubt it; Cadillac Fairview likely has a monopoly on Nordstrom Canada for x number of years and they haven't kicked out any Sears locations in Québec, but they could build a new store) and we really don't know what will happen with Saks; it is nothing more than speculation at this point.
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