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Cancellation token in Task constructor: why?

Certain System.Threading.Tasks.Task constructors take a CancellationToken as a parameter:

CancellationTokenSource source = new CancellationTokenSource(); Task t = new Task (/* method */, source.Token);

What baffles me about this is that there is no way from inside the method body to actually get at the token passed in (e.g., nothing like Task.Current…