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When Paul Martin asked Jim Peterson to be his trade minister and separated the trade portfolio from foreign affairs, Peterson no doubt thought about the offer carefully, not long, but carefully. On more sober reflection, or as Horace Rumpole would say, upon further and better particulars, he might have wondered about the agenda he had been handed. […]