OTTAWA – The president of the Philippines says if Canada doesn’t take back tonnes of trash within the next week he will “declare war” and ship the containers back himself.
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Filipino media outlets are reporting that Rodrigo Duterte made threats Tuesday about dozens of shipping containers filled with Canadian household and electronic garbage that has been rotting in a port near Manila for nearly six years.
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More than 100 of the containers were shipped to Manila by a Canadian company in 2013 and 2014, improperly labelled as plastics for recycling.
Customs inspectors discovered they actually contained garbage, including soiled adult diapers and kitchen trash.
Canada has been trying for nearly six years to convince the Philippines to dispose of the garbage there even though a Filipino court ordered the trash returned to Canada in 2016.
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Last week a British Columbia lawyer said in a legal brief that Canada is in violation of the international Basel Convention, which forbids developed nations from sending their toxic or hazardous waste to developing nations without informed consent.
easywriter on April 24th, 2019 at 14:34 UTC »
The Canadian army has 1/6 the men but 5x the budget and a lot more hardware. Our navy and air force is vastly superior.
That said I don’t think either country has the force projection ability to go too far beyond their home shores. Our frigates and subs could get to Philippines but we’d need air cover to stay there until the Philippine air force (all 30 planes!) are obliterated. For that I guess we’d need the cooperation of Australia as a base of flight operations for the first few days.
From my time playing Civilization 6 we’d then have to send a governor for Philippine loyalty to align with Canada after about 10 turns.
NumberOneJetsFan on April 24th, 2019 at 11:48 UTC »
'Duterte Harry'
_Pooba on April 24th, 2019 at 11:32 UTC »
Duterte has been playing too much hearts of iron methinks