MALACAÑANG on Thursday maintained that the Philippine government's stand for Canada to take back heaps of trash illegally shipped to the country was "non-negotiable."

Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo made the statement as he warned Canada that it would risk its decades-old diplomatic ties with the Philippines if it failed to recover its garbage from the country.

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