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INCOME TAX EXPENSE INCOME TAX EXPENSE (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2019
Income Tax [Abstract] |
Schedule of components of income tax expense (recovery) |
| For the three months ended June 30 |  | For the six months ended June 30 |
| 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |
Current |  | $103 |  |  | $96 |  |  | $233 |  |  | $229 |
Deferred | (62 | ) | 20 |  | (25 | ) | 88 |
|  | $41 |  |  | $116 |  |  | $208 |  |  | $317 |

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