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Post-employee benefit plans | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2020
Employee Benefits [Abstract] |
Post-employment benefit plans |
Note 13 | Post-employment benefit plans
Post-employment benefit plans cost We provide pension and other benefits for most of our employees. These include defined benefit (DB) pension plans, defined contribution (DC) pension plans and other post-employment benefits (OPEBs). COMPONENTS OF POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFIT PLANS SERVICE COST
|  | THREE MONTHS |  | SIX MONTHS |
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED JUNE 30 |  | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | 2019
DB pension |  | (55) |  | (48) |  | (109) |  | (96) |
DC pension |  | (26) |  | (25) |  | (62) |  | (58) |
OPEBs |  | — |  | — |  | (1) |  | (1) |
Less: |  |  |  |  |
| Capitalized benefit plans cost | 17 |  | 15 |  | 33 |  | 29 |
Total post-employment benefit plans service cost |  | (64) |  | (58) |  | (139) |  | (126) |
COMPONENTS OF POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFIT PLANS FINANCING COST
|  | THREE MONTHS |  | SIX MONTHS |
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED JUNE 30 |  | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | 2019
DB pension |  | (2) |  | (5) |  | (5) |  | (10) |
OPEBs |  | (9) |  | (10) |  | (18) |  | (21) |
Total interest on post-employment benefit obligations |  | (11) |  | (15) |  | (23) |  | (31) |
FUNDED STATUS OF POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFIT PLANS COST The following table shows the funded status of our post-employment benefit obligations.
|  | FUNDED |  | PARTIALLY FUNDED(1) |  | UNFUNDED(2) |  | TOTAL |
FOR THE PERIOD ENDED |  | JUNE 30, 2020 | DECEMBER 31, 2019 | JUNE 30, 2020 | DECEMBER 31, 2019 | JUNE 30, 2020 | DECEMBER 31, 2019 | JUNE 30, 2020 | DECEMBER 31, 2019
Present value of post-employment benefit obligations |  | (25,790) |  | (24,961) |  | (1,964) |  | (1,918) |  | (308) |  | (300) |  | (28,062) |  | (27,179) |
Fair value of plan assets |  | 26,493 |  | 25,474 |  | 374 |  | 376 |  | — |  | — |  | 26,867 |  | 25,850 |
Plan surplus (deficit) |  | 703 |  | 513 |  | (1,590) |  | (1,542) |  | (308) |  | (300) |  | (1,195) |  | (1,329) |
(1)The partially funded plans consist of supplementary executive retirement plans (SERPs) for eligible employees and certain OPEBs. The company partially funds the SERPs through letters of credit and a retirement compensation arrangement account with the Canada Revenue Agency. Certain paid-up life insurance benefits are funded through life insurance contracts. (2)Our unfunded plans consist of certain OPEBs, which are paid as claims are incurred. In Q2 2020, we recorded a decrease in our post-employment benefit plans and a loss, before taxes, in Other comprehensive (loss) income from continuing operations of ($2,215) million due to an increase in the present value of our post-employment benefit obligations of ($4,673) million as a result of a decrease in the discount rate to 2.8% at June 30, 2020, compared to 4.2% at March 31, 2020, partly offset by an increase in the fair value of plan assets of $2,458 million as a result of an actual gain on plan assets of 10.7%. During the first half of 2020, we recorded an increase in our post-employment benefit plans and a gain, before taxes, in Other comprehensive (loss) income from continuing operations of $150 million due to an increase in the fair value of plan assets of $1,207 million as a result of an actual gain on plan assets of 6.5%, partly offset by an increase in the present value of our post-employment benefit obligations of ($1,057) million as a result of a decrease in the discount rate to 2.8% at June 30, 2020, compared to 3.1% at December 31, 2019

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