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- ↑ Mario Fontaine, Mario Fontaine, "Dans Shefford, les organisations s'échangent des «amabilités» qui masquent les enjeux locaux," La Presse, 16 November 1988, A12.
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- ↑ "Le côté charmeur de José Breton...," Le Soleil, 26 November 2008, p. 9. He was forty-six years old at the time.
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