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Vittorio Coco’s UDC party platform
Senate candidate calls for immigration control and promotion of Italian language
By Simona Giacobbi
Originally Published: 2008-04-06
Vittorio Coco, the UDC party’s political secretary in Canada, and senate candidate for the upcoming April 13 and 14 election, strongly believes in his political party, the UDC (Italy’s Christian Democratic party).
“The candidate lists have been finalized several days ago, but those of us with the UDC party have always worked right in the heart of the community, not just now at election time.” This is his general platform. Coco’s focus is on immigration, Italian culture, and youth.
What are the issues, and what are your goals?
“Our priorities are institutions, economic development, security and justice, family and social issues, schools and our youth, energy, the environment, agriculture and infrastructure, transportation, health, and foreign politics. To be respected, a nation needs to have a good foreign policy.”
How would you promote the Italian language?
“This is one of our main issues. We intend to build a preeminent Italian school in North America to promote our language. The French have it, and we have one in Afghanistan, so why not here in North America? There’s a strong demand here for the study of the Italian language.”
What can be done to make people’s daily lives safer?
“We need to empower the forces of law and order, increase immigration control, provide incentive to integrate while strongly defending our identity. But we need to make the electorate understand that we’re not against immigration – we’re immigrants – but there has to be precise rules or else we risk allowing in delinquents. As far as justice is concerned, we’re not interested in controversial discourse, only results. But justice needs to be addressed in a timely matter – for example there are court cases in Italy which can last up to 20 years.”
What about finance and the economy?
“It is important to eliminate financial legislation, which includes built-in increases and spending, replacing it with balanced-budget legislation modeled after the private sector. The objective? To put accountability and the bottom-line into the system of expenditures. To favour economic development, we need to reform production methods and reduce the tax burden, reducing taxes for research and development in order to establish innovation and to increase competitiveness.”
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