{"id":214551,"date":"2019-05-16T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T04:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=214551"},"modified":"2019-05-16T00:03:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T04:03:52","slug":"canada-misses-trash-shipment-deadline-ph-recalls-filipino-envoys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/16\/canada-misses-trash-shipment-deadline-ph-recalls-filipino-envoys\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada misses trash shipment deadline; PH recalls Filipino envoys"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At midnight last night, letters for the recall of our ambassador and consuls to Canada went out. They are expected here in a day or so. Canada missed the May 15 deadline. And we shall maintain a diminished diplomatic presence in Canada until its garbage is ship bound there.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/status\/1128811334399692800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Filipino envoys posted in Canada were recalled after Ottawa missed the deadline on shipping out its garbage from Manila, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. bared Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At midnight last night, letters for the recall of our ambassador and consuls to Canada went out. They are expected here in a day or so,&#8221; he said on his official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Canada missed the May 15 deadline. And we shall maintain a diminished diplomatic presence in Canada until its garbage is ship bound there,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a reception in Makati City on Tuesday, Locsin said\u00a0the Department of Finance informed him that Canadian representatives did not show up\u00a0in a meeting with the Customs and &#8220;that was the trigger&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo earlier warned that Canada&#8217;s disposal of its garbage is &#8220;dangerously disruptive&#8221; of Philippine-Canadian ties.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, assured this did not mean that there would be cutting of ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Embassy has promised to \u201cresolve the issue, including taking the waste back to Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the recall of Filipino envoys back to the Philippines, the Canadian Embassy in Manila has yet to respond as of posting.<\/p>\n<p>More than a hundred container vans from Canada arrived in batches at the Port of Manila from 2013 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Initially declared to contain only plastic scraps, it was found to have non-recyclable plastics, household wastes and used adult diapers.<\/p>\n<p>Late in April, President Rodrigo R. Duterte gave Ottawa an ultimatum to take back its trash. A few days after, Locsin said the deadline is on May 15, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to comment, Canadian Ambassador John Holmes back then declined to pinpoint the exact date. &#8220;No comment right now,&#8221; he said in an email to the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>Malaca\u00f1ang on May 7 said the Canadian government has committed to shoulder all the expenses of shipping out all 69 containers dumped in the Philippines in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At midnight last night, letters for the recall of our ambassador and consuls to Canada went out. 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