Palace: PH stand vs Canadaover trash shipment ‘non-negotiable’MALACAÑANG on Thursday maintained that the Philippine government’s stand for Canada to take back heaps of trash illegally shipped to the country was “non-negotiable.”Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo made the statement as he warned Canada that it would risk its decades-old diplomatic ties with the Philippines if it failed to recover its garbage from the country. “Our stand against its making our country a garbage bin of their waste is non-negotiable. On Wednesday, Canada affirmed its commitment to working with the Philippine government over the garbage problem after President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to declare war over the issue. We’ll declare war against them, we can defeat them,” he added. The shipment of Canadian waste was deemed illegal, as provided by the Basel Convention signed by the Philippines and Canada.

Source: Manila Times April 25, 2019 04:30 UTC