Canadian here, a damn shame how this all went down. i love how he's literally threatening
WAR over this,
THAT guy loves his country
WOW :O
i mean let's face it, a single team of our special operations could prob disable him and most of his country, but gotta love the guys
SPIRIT . Our leader up here most consider to not be of the same spine caliber
LOL the guy would threaten war over trash but ask his citizens to just accept Chinese dominance after their territory in the South China Sea has been stolen and their fishermen regularly harrassed and extorted by the Chinese Coast Guard. Even went so far as to joke that the Philippines better just voluntarily join China as a new province.
I don't think anyone outside the Philippines still take him seriously. As for the containers unless he can find a connection between that private company and the Canadian government, he really can't force Canada to do something about it. The Philippines just don't have leverage in anything.
He can claim a connection of course (like how almost everyone believe the CCP give orders to Chinese companies operating outside China) but he need to find a way to sue them.
I don't remember if they've already went after the local company that's supposed to "buy" the "recyclable" materials.
everybody can paint or buy shipping containers and put a flag of another country on it. its easy to blame foreigners, the pazific has many big countries that might put waste into it, duterte simply blames the richest & weakest at the same time. wouldnt be easy to blame russia, china, japan, usa and others are poor as this
You basically described how bullies operate. I don't think Canada would take the bait though. Unlike say, US or China, they don't have as much geopolitical stake in the region.
And he can't use this to shame Trudeau, people online already regularly call the guy spineless anyway.