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‘A straight-shooter and a gentleman’: former trade minister Jim Peterson has died

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Former Liberal cabinet minister Jim Peterson died on May 10, at the age of 82. He is being remembered across party lines and levels of government as a big-hearted 'gentleman.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

May 15, 2024

Former Liberal trade minister Jim Peterson died on May 10, aged 82. The Canadian Press reported he’d had a heart attack at his farm.

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