{"id":56692,"date":"2015-07-23T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T04:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=56692"},"modified":"2015-07-23T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T04:12:19","slug":"duterte-lashes-out-at-execs-responsible-for-garbage-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/23\/duterte-lashes-out-at-execs-responsible-for-garbage-dump\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte lashes out at execs responsible for garbage dump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Davao City Mayor Rodrigo \u201cRody\u201d Duterte (Facebook photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 Referring to the dumping of Canada\u2019s garbage to the Philippines, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo \u201cRody\u201d Duterte asserted that he would force the environment and customs officials responsible for the trash to eat them if they were thrown in his city.<\/p>\n

The more than 1,300 tons of garbage stored in numerous cargo containers earlier arrived at the Manila International Container Port and was then brought to Tarlac province, where it has been dumped. Filipino groups then started protests disapproving the waste shipment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is rudeness. Why did you allow them to dump their garbage here? Are we the garbage dump of the world?\u201d Duterte asked. \u201cI will make you eat the trash.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Canada\u2019s garbage, which included non-recyclable plastics and adult diapers, was indeed dumped in Davao, Duterte stressed that he would not think twice to order a contingent to return the trash.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will rent a boat, take them and dump them into British Columbia,\u201d he said, referring to one of the country\u2019s provinces.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can embrace the bacteria of the Filipino people but I would never, never accept a swab of blood from a foreign country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Duterte urged the Ombudsman to file criminal and administrative charges against the environment and customs officials involved in the foreign garbage disposal which was an \u2018insult to the Filipinos\u2019 and which \u2018derogated our national dignity.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI condemn the DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) and customs officials. They should be summarily dismissed by the Ombudsman\u2026 [To] wait for an administrative action would take too long,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Duterte called on President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III to file a diplomatic protest against Canada. He cited former president and now Manila Mayor Jorseph \u201cErap\u201d Estrada doing the same when Japan attempted to dump their garbage in the Philippines during his term.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know in a community of nations, there\u2019s always that rule of good neighbor policy. That\u2019s why, hopefully, if that is the spirit of the league of nations, the United Nations, the spirit that prevails should be good neighbor policy. You do not do something which is harmful, that could result in discomfort to your neighbors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Canadian Embassy clarified that the garbage shipment was a \u2018private commercial matter involving a Canadian company and its Philippine partner.\u2019<\/p>\n

Chronic Plastics, the Philippine firm which imported the garbage, had already been charged for violating the importation process and\u00a0for\u00a0declaring that the shipment contained recyclable plastics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2013 Referring to the dumping of Canada\u2019s garbage to the Philippines, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo \u201cRody\u201d Duterte asserted that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":56693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-56692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}