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Property, Plant and Equipment - Finance Leases - Additional Information (Detail) - CAD CAD in Millions | Dec. 31, 2017 | Dec. 31, 2016
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Property plant and equipment under finance leases [member] |  |
Disclosure of detailed information about property, plant and equipment [line items] |  |
Carrying value of property, plant and equipment held under finance lease | CAD 406 | CAD 220
Land Building Plant and Equipment [member] |  |
Disclosure of detailed information about property, plant and equipment [line items] |  |
Carrying value of property, plant and equipment held under finance lease | 192 | 220
Construction In Progress [member] |  |
Disclosure of detailed information about property, plant and equipment [line items] |  |
Carrying value of property, plant and equipment held under finance lease | CAD 214 | CAD 0

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- Definition Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition The amount of assets recognised by the entity, which are leased under finance leases. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Note Expiry date 2019-01-01 -Name IAS -Number 17 -IssueDate 2017-01-01 -Paragraph 31 -Subparagraph a -URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IAS&num=17&date=2017-03-02&anchor=para_31_a&doctype=Standard&book=B -URIDate 2017-03-09 + Details
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