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financing costs (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2019
financing costs |
Schedule of financing costs |
|  |  |  | Three months |  | Six months
Periods ended June 30 (millions) |  | Note |  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Interest expense |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Interest on long-term debt, excluding lease liabilities – gross |  |  |  | $ | 161 |  | $ | 151 |  | $ | 311 |  | $ | 295
Interest on long-term debt, excluding lease liabilities - capitalized 1 |  | 18(a) |  |  | (4) |  |  | — |  |  | (4) |  |  | —
Interest on long-term debt, excluding lease liabilities |  |  |  |  | 157 |  |  | 151 |  |  | 307 |  |  | 295
Interest on lease liabilities |  |  |  |  | 16 |  |  | — |  |  | 32 |  |  | —
Interest on short-term borrowings and other |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  | (1) |  |  | 8 |  |  | 1
Interest accretion on provisions |  | 25 |  |  | 5 |  |  | 6 |  |  | 11 |  |  | 10
|  |  |  |  | 181 |  |  | 156 |  |  | 358 |  |  | 306
Employee defined benefit plans net interest |  | 15 |  |  | — |  |  | 3 |  |  | — |  |  | 7
Foreign exchange |  |  |  |  | 11 |  |  | (6) |  |  | 4 |  |  | (2)
|  |  |  |  | 192 |  |  | 153 |  |  | 362 |  |  | 311
Interest income |  |  |  |  | (3) |  |  | (3) |  |  | (5) |  |  | (5)
|  |  |  | $ | 189 |  | $ | 150 |  | $ | 357 |  | $ | 306
| (1) |  | Long-term debt, excluding lease liabilities, interest at a composite rate of 4.33% was capitalized to intangible assets with indefinite lives in the period.

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