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[If Quebec became sovereign] there would be one level of government that would be missing, one less level of government. The municipality would become the second level.

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Jane Jacobs
Age: 89 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 4
Died: 2006
Died: April 25
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Economist
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Pennsylvania
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