Duterte issues ANOTHER threat to Trudeau as he vows to DUMP rubbish on Canada's beaches

Last week, Mr Duterte railed against the hundreds of tons of rubbish brought to his country’s ports from Canada in 2013 and 2014. Speaking at a news conference he cast a “warning to Canada” saying, “we will declare war against them”. The Philippine President stated his country was “being treated like a dump site”.

According to the Inquirer he outlined his plan of attack saying: ”I will tell them to load it onto ships next week.

“If you don’t accept your garbage, I will dump it on your beautiful beaches.”

It is claimed that the 103 containers were falsely marked as holding recyclable scrap.

An environmental nonprofit group found they held adult nappies, household rubbish, plastic bags and other waste, news outlet ABS-CBN reported.

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In 2016, a Philippine court ordered the company, Chronic Inc., to return the rubbish to Canada.

But it has stayed in port storage areas, except for 26 containers that were dumped into landfill.

The New York Times reported Caroline Thériault, a spokesperson for Canada’s minister of the environment, said last week Ottawa was “working closely with the Philippines to resolve this issue in an environmentally responsible way”.

Ottawa had previously said it could not chart a private ship to return the shipment to Canada.

But, ABS-CBN News reported the Canadian Embassy in Manila said the country was “committed to collaborating with the government of the Philippines to resolve this issue”.

The Canadian Embassy in Manila did not address Duterte’s threat but noted instead Manila and Ottawa “are celebrating 70 years of diplomatic relations”.

The embassy said: ”The relationship is built on strong people to people ties.

“And, in our common interest in strengthening political, economic and cultural relations and in our mutual commitment to peace.”

source: express.co.uk