{"id":74967,"date":"2016-04-27T06:11:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T10:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=74967"},"modified":"2025-01-14T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:29:26","slug":"presidential-candidates-weigh-canada-waste-dumping-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/04\/27\/presidential-candidates-weigh-canada-waste-dumping-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential candidates weigh in on Canada waste dumping controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presidential aspirants (L-R) Senator Grace Poe, former DILG chief Mar Roxas, and Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago (Facebook photos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Quezon City \u2013 Presidential candidates Grace Poe, Mar Roxas and Miriam Defensor Santiago, if elected, will take specific measures to solve the long-drawn-out Canadian garbage scandal and prevent it from recurring.<\/p>\n

In their response to the question put forward by the EcoWaste Coalition, a waste and pollution watchdog group, the three presidential aspirants specified measures that she or he will do in her\/his first 100 days in office to ensure that the illegal waste shipments from Canada are sent back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf\u00a0 elected,\u00a0 I\u00a0 will\u00a0 invoke\u00a0 the\u00a0 Basel\u00a0 Convention\u00a0 to\u00a0 force\u00a0 Canada\u00a0 to\u00a0 take\u00a0 back\u00a0 the\u00a0 trash it dumped on Philippine soil,\u201d stated Santiago of the People\u2019s Reform Party.<\/p>\n

The Basel Convention, which the Philippines ratified in 1993, seeks to protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects of hazardous wastes, particularly the transboundary movements of such wastes between nations.<\/p>\n

Santiago, who filed two resolutions at the Senate pertaining to the Canadian garbage dumping, emphasized \u201cwe must not process the waste in the Philippines, as it sets a dangerous precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we allow one country to turn the Philippines into a garbage dump, we are telling all other countries that they can do the same,\u201d she pointed out.<\/p>\n

Unlike outgoing President Benigno S. Aquino III, pro-administration \u201cDaang Matuwid\u201d bet Roxas was categorical in asking the Canadian government to ship back their garbage \u201cat the soonest time possible.<\/p>\n

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\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile these were imported by a private company, they would not have reached the Philippines without clearance from concerned Canadian authorities. The Canadian government must be asked to assume equal responsibility to remove these waste materials from the Philippines at the soonest time possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will task the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to send an official letter to Canada demanding them to take back all these containers which were imported in violation of Philippine laws and the Basel Convention,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

For her part, Poe of the \u201cPartido Galing at Puso\u201d said her administration will \u201cfacilitate bilateral talks with the Canadian government to repatriate the wastes back to Canada.<\/p>\n

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\u201d<\/p>\n

She also said that she will \u201ctake immediate steps to ratify the Basel Ban Amendment to ensure clean production and no hazardous wastes are shipped from developed countries to developing countries for any reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Basel Ban Amendment is a revision to the Basel Convention that seeks to prohibit exports of hazardous wastes from developed to developing countries for final disposal, reuse, recycling and recovery.<\/p>\n

While Mayor Rodrigo Duterte failed to reply to the question sent by the EcoWaste Coalition, the PDP-Laban candidate had strongly spoken against the illegal entry of Canadian trash.<\/p>\n

He had suggested to Aquino to file a diplomatic protest against Canada over the garbage shipments.<\/p>\n

Like Duterte, Vice-President Jejomar Binay of the United Nationalist Alliance did not respond to nine-point questionnaire on wastes and toxics that the EcoWaste Coalition sent to the five presidential bets.<\/p>\n

Moreover, Santiago stressed that \u201cthe task of protecting the country from illicit or unwanted shipments rests on the shoulders of the Bureau of Customs (BOC),\u201d adding that \u201cin a way, the issue of imported trash from Canada is a corruption issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe BOC is so corrupt that it cannot perform its functions properly. The solution there is to appoint a few good men to run the BOC and for Malaca\u00f1ang to stop meddling with the bureau. Corruption at the BOC will cease only if not tolerated by Palace officials,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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