A protest in the Philippines calls on Canada to repatriate its waste. (Photo: Al Jazeera)
Ottawa (VNA) – The Philippines is slowly normalising diplomaticrelations with Canada in the context that the trash tiff between the twonations has come to a close.
Philippine Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea on June 4 sent a memo todepartment heads and government corporations, saying that the ban on travel toCanada and on interactions with Canadian officials is over.
The Southeast Asian countryon May 30 loaded 69 containers of garbage onto the M/V Bavaria cargo ship,which is scheduled to arrive at Canadian port city in Vancouver on June 30.
In2013 and 2014, a Canadian company shipped 103 containers labelled as plasticsfor recycling to the Philippines. However, an inspection of the PhilippinesBureau of Customs found that the containers were filled with different types ofwaste, including household trash, diapers, newspapers, and plastic bottles.
Earlierthis month, Manila asked Ottawa to take back the garbage before May 15, but theCanadian government missed the deadline, forcing the Philippines to take toughdiplomatic actions, recalling its envoys to Ottawa.
Canadarecently announced it had awarded a contract to Bolloré Logistics Canada tobring truckloads of mixed trash from the Philippines back to Canada. Thecountry will pay the costs of the preparation, transfer, shipment, and disposalof the waste.–VNA
The Philippines will withdraw its top diplomats from Canada after Ottawa missed a deadline to take back 69 shipping containers full of trash, the latest move in a long-running row between the two countries regarding this issue.
Relations between the Philippines and Canada are getting tenser after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on May 22 ordered authorized agencies to hire a private shipping company to send 69 containers of garbage back to Canada and leave them within its territorial waters if the country refuses to accept the trash.
The Canadian Government has signed a contract with shipping company Bollore Logistics Canada to bring containers of waste back to Canada from the Philippines, Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna said on May 22.
The Philippines on May 26 confirmed that it has banned all government trips to Canada, highlighting the Southeast Asian country’s diminished interaction with Canada in the face of a garbage issue.
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A protest in the Philippines calls on Canada to repatriate its waste. (Photo: Al Jazeera) 
