Members of the Committee in Ecology during the Congressional Inquiry on the Canadian garbage expressed discontent on the issue. No other than the Deputy Speaker Representative Carlos Padilla quoted Article 31 of the Basel Convention on the responsibility of the Canadian government to help facilitate the re-export of the garbage back to the Canadian soil. Despite the unanimous calls of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) , and Bureau of Customs (BOC) to re-export the garbage, the Canadian Embassy remained firm and chose to ignore the Basel Convention's clause on their responsibility. 

Below is the reply of the Canadian Embassy on the invitation of the house to appear before the Committee on Ecology: "The Embassy of Canada welcomes the recent determination by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) that contents of the containers shipped to the Philippines by a private Canadian company are neither toxic nor hazardous, but are comprised of a mix of plastics and residual waste. We would refer you to DENR for more information on their study. The case is a private commercial matter involving a Canadian company and its Philippines partner, but the Embassy engaged the Government of the Philippines and its appropriate agencies to actively seek to assist and resolve it in keeping with the spirit of collaboration and cooperation that characterises our countries' relations.
 Currently, there are no domestic laws which the Government of Canada could apply to compel the shipper to return its containers to Canada. The Government of Canada has worked with the shipper and with the Government of the Philippines to find a solution to this waste shipment, in accordance with our two countries’ respective regulations and legislative frameworks. 
We are pleased that this matter has been resolved and would refer you to DENR for an update on their behalf."

 Members of the Committee on Ecology are outraged at the reply and passive action of the Canadian Embassy. Chairman of the Committee on Ecology, Congressman Amado Bagatsing will write a letter to their counterpart in the Canadian Parliament thru the DFA as regards this issue in the hope that the Canadian government can help resolve the issue to re-export the Canadian garbage based on the Basel Convention.