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Trade payables and other liabilities (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2023
Subclassifications of assets, liabilities and equities [abstract] |
Disclosure of trade payables and other liabilities |
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31 | NOTE | 2023 | 2022 |  |
Trade payables and accruals |  | 3,308 |  | 3,602 |  |  |
Compensation payable |  | 599 |  | 607 |  |  |
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd. (MLSE) financial liability (1) | 29 |  | — |  | 149 |  |  |
Commodity taxes payable |  | 143 |  | 108 |  |  |
Derivative liabilities | 29 | 107 |  | 106 |  |  |
Provisions | 26 | 65 |  | 74 |  |  |
Other current liabilities |  | 507 |  | 575 |  |  |
Total trade payables and other liabilities |  | 4,729 |  | 5,221 |  |  |
(1)Represented BCE’s obligation to repurchase the BCE Master Trust Fund’s (Master Trust Fund) 9% interest in MLSE at a price not less than an agreed minimum price. In January 2023, BCE repurchased the interest held by the Master Trust Fund, a trust fund that holds pension fund investments serving the pension obligations of the BCE group pension plan participants, in MLSE for a cash consideration of $149 million.

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