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Interest and Other Financing Expense (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
Borrowing costs [abstract] |
Disclosure of interest and other financing expense |
|  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
Interest and other financing expense: |  |  |  |  |  |
Long-term debt |  | $ | 895 |  |  | $ | 867 |  |  | $ | 810 |
Lease liabilities (1) |  | 70 |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Less: amounts capitalized on qualifying assets |  | (53 | ) |  | (69 | ) |  | (82 | )
Total interest and other financing expense |  | 912 |  |  | 798 |  |  | 728 |
Total interest income |  | (76 | ) |  | (59 | ) |  | (97 | )
Net interest and other financing expense |  | $ | 836 |  |  | $ | 739 |  |  | $ | 631 |
(1) | The Company adopted IFRS 16 "Leases" on January 1, 2019 using the modified retrospective approach (see note 8).

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