2/ When an opportunity like this comes along - we should find ways to make it happen.  Not wring our hands about what could go wrong if it happens.  Find a way to get it done - More attitude like that would help us evolve to a entrepreneurial driven economy with less reliance on the businesses of our parents and grandparents as those are at risk at this point

Having said this 50k jobs are not just high paying technology jobs - it probably includes a dist'n centre and the last time I checked shipping cross border to serve the US market is not going to help Amazon achieve their goal of delivering things you buy the same day you bought it.  Nor will creating 50k jobs by a US company and locating it just on the other side of the US border going to make Amazon popular with the current US administration.  So this isn't going to Toronto in any event.  

To be great, we have to take risks.  And we are a great country - but we have to work to make sure it stays that way for our kids.