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If you qualify for this tax credit, you can expect a payment in your bank account this week
The next quarterly GST/HST tax credit payment is expected to go out this week, according to the Canada Revenue Agency.
The Canadian truckers blockade is posing a risk to the auto industry's supply chain and U.S. officials were in close touch with their counterparts in Canada on the issue, the White House said on Wednesday.
The nearly two-week long protests against COVID-19 pandemic mandates and other restrictions have at times this week halted or sharply slowed traffic at the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. The bridge, Canada's busiest link to the United States, accounts for about 25 per cent of trade between Canada and the United States as it is used to transport vehicles and parts and agricultural products.
"We are watching this very closely," White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said at a news briefing. "The blockade poses a risk to supply chains, for the auto industry."
Chrysler-parent Stellantis said the Windsor Assembly Plant had to cut short its first and second shifts on Tuesday over parts shortages caused by the disruptions.
"The plant resumed production this morning. We continue to work closely with our carriers to get parts into the plant to mitigate further disruptions," Stellantis said.
Psaki said a White House Homeland Security adviser convened a meeting on Wednesday on the issue and officials are talking with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's office and automakers.
"There are a number of steps we have proactively taken," Psaki said.
U.S. customs officials have helped reroute some commercial travel to the Bluewater Bridge that connects Port Huron, Michigan, to Canada.
A General Motors spokesman said the Detroit automaker has not seen any issues but is monitoring the situation.
(Reporting by Jarrett Renshaw and David Shepardson; Writing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Franklin Paul and Grant McCool)
The next quarterly GST/HST tax credit payment is expected to go out this week, according to the Canada Revenue Agency.
Police have opened a section of a major highway in west-central Alberta that had been blocked by a grass fire.
Eating higher levels of ultraprocessed food may shorten lifespans by more than 10 per cent, according to a new, unpublished study of over 500,000 people whom researchers followed for nearly three decades.
The U.S. Supreme Court found on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were within his constitutional powers as president, but can for private acts, in a landmark ruling recognizing for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution.
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