Let the People Decide: The Autobiography of Dennis Canavan

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He told the Record: "Speaking in a personal capacity, I think there are very strong arguments for compensation, especially in cases of unfair dismissal.

As a result, my children died in dignity and I do not accept the option of assisted suicide is necessary to ensure dignity in death.” The home was not centrally heated and outside he drove an old Allegro, the interior of which resembled a battlefield. He joked that someone mistook a Yarrow Shipbuilders tie for one by Yves Saint Laurent, misreading the motif.

He wants to make assisted dying a choice for adults who are both terminally ill and mentally competent, and insists there are strong safeguards built into his proposed Assisted Dying Scotland Bill. His second son Dennis died from a brain tumour in December 2006 at the age of 35, while third son Paul died from skin cancer aged 16 in 1989.

Mr Canavan has spoken out against assisted suicide before, but once again it is a very clear contribution to the ongoing debate about assisted suicide in Scotland and his comments provide a much needed counter-narrative to the one put forward by the likes of Dignity in Dying. In his response to the coronavirus, Boris Johnson is showing utter confusion rather than strong leadership.

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I’ve said before that this would be a collective pardon, rather than one which requires an individual to make an application. This is because we recognise the difficulties there may be for some in sourcing the records to enable an individual to make a robust case. Therefore we must take the time to explore the issues associated with the granting of a collective pardon, and take a view on what would be reasonable and ethical. By offering a pardon, the Scottish Government is doing what it can within its powers to restore dignity to miners convicted in relation to the strike. However, Employment and Industrial Relations are reserved to Westminster. The proposed Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill would “enable competent adults who are terminally ill to be provided at their request with assistance to end their life”. The move was the right one. No-one was better suited to deliver Home Rule and he was temperamentally the right choice in bringing strands of opinion together. George Robertson was always more tribal, particularly when it came to dealing with the SNP. At that unique moment there was no-one who could rival him. He looked and sounded the part and stood ready to better the common weal, to start to right the social arithmetic.

So what is the alternative? Keir Starmer's Labour party is increasingly irrelevant and certainly does not look like a government in waiting. The key point is that with palliative care, a good death is entirely possible. No wonder a majority of palliative care doctors and medics are opposed to the legalisation of assisted suicide. I would not have the same respect for medical professionals if they were to become involved in actively assisting people to commit suicide.” The report also suggests that the pardon could be granted on the same basis as the Armed Forces Act 2006. This pardon scheme recognised the exceptional circumstances under which World War One soldiers were convicted of offences such as cowardice. The scheme did not quash convictions, nor create rights, entitlements or liabilities. But it did offer restoration of dignity to deceased soldiers and indeed comfort to their families. Dennis Canavan's memoir tells of heartache and Holyrood". The Herald. 21 September 2009 . Retrieved 16 January 2017.

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And by committing Labour to embrace a Constitutional Convention on Home Rule, he championed a cross-party approach in deciding the shape of a future Scottish Parliament. This was not done for reason of expediency. Dewar genuinely believed the project on forging an agreement on future governance should be owned by all of Scotland. For the above reasons, I urge my former colleagues in the Scottish Parliament to vote against the proposed bill. I hope thought will be given also to a new potation in memory of her consort, the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, never a man to waste time over a mere trifle. Begin with the liquor of your choice and boil the hell out of it. In April 2010, Canavan declared his support for John McNally, the Scottish National Party candidate for Falkirk in the 2010 general election. Falkirk is the successor to Canavan's former Westminster constituency. [8] At a meeting of the council’s planning panel last week, members refused a retrospective application for the CCTV pole, deeming it to be contrary to the Local Development Plan.