Pension and other PostRetirement Benefits - Expenses (Details) - CAD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Defined benefits pension plans
Pension and other PostRetirement Benefits,
Current service cost	$ 235	$ 193
Interest cost	35	36
Defined benefit plans expense	270	229
Defined contribution plans expense	77	74
Total benefit plans expense charged to earnings	347	303
Return on plan assets (excluding amounts included in net interest expense)	299	(407)
Experience (gain) loss arising on plan liabilities	(26)	2
Actuarial (gain) loss arising from changes in financial assumptions	(354)	354
Actuarial gain arising from changes in demographic assumptions	(1)	(4)
Actuarial (gain) loss recognized in other comprehensive income	(82)	(55)
Defined benefits other post retirement benefits
Pension and other PostRetirement Benefits,
Current service cost	13	14
Interest cost	21	22
Defined benefit plans expense	34	36
Total benefit plans expense charged to earnings	34	36
Experience (gain) loss arising on plan liabilities	(18)	(12)
Actuarial (gain) loss arising from changes in financial assumptions	(42)	26
Actuarial gain arising from changes in demographic assumptions		(9)
Actuarial (gain) loss recognized in other comprehensive income	$ (60)	$ 5

The decrease (increase) in a net defined benefit liability (asset) resulting from actuarial gains (losses) arising from experience adjustments that result in remeasurements of the net defined benefit liability (asset). Experience adjustments deal with the effects of differences between the previous actuarial assumptions and what has actually occurred. [Refer: Net defined benefit liability (asset)]

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The amount of other comprehensive income, before tax, related to gains (losses) on remeasurements of defined benefit plans, which comprise actuarial gains and losses; the return on plan assets, excluding amounts included in net interest on the net defined benefit liability (asset); and any change in the effect of the asset ceiling, excluding amounts included in net interest on the net defined benefit liability (asset). [Refer: Other comprehensive income, before tax; Defined benefit plans [member]; Plan assets [member]; Net defined benefit liability (asset)]

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The amount of post-employment benefit expense relating to defined benefit plans. [Refer: Defined benefit plans [member]]

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The amount of post-employment benefit expense relating to defined contribution plans. Defined contribution plans are post-employment benefit plans under which an entity pays fixed contributions into a separate entity (a fund) and will have no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employee benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.

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The decrease (increase) in the net defined benefit liability (asset) resulting from the return on plan assets, excluding amounts included in interest income or expense. The return on plans assets is interest, dividends and other revenue derived from the plan assets, together with realised and unrealised gains or losses on the plan assets, less any costs of managing plan assets and less any tax payable by the plan itself, other than tax included in the actuarial assumptions used to measure the present value of the defined benefit obligation. [Refer: Plan assets [member]; Net defined benefit liability (asset); Actuarial assumptions [member]; Interest expense (income), net defined benefit liability (asset)]

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The amount of actuarial loss (gain) arising from changes in demographic assumptions.

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The amount of actuarial loss (gain) arising from changes in financial assumptions.

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Amount of interest expense recognized related to defined benefit plan.

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Amount of service cost expense recognized related to defined benefit plan.

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The combined amount of post-employment benefit expense relating to defined benefit and defined contribution plans.

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