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Property, Plant and Equipment - Finance Leases - Additional Information (Detail) - CAD ($) $ in Millions	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Property plant and equipment under finance leases [member]
Disclosure of recognised finance lease as assets by lessee [line items]
Carrying value of property, plant and equipment held under finance leases	$ 613	$ 406
Land, buildings, plant and equipment [member]
Disclosure of recognised finance lease as assets by lessee [line items]
Carrying value of property, plant and equipment held under finance leases	$ 504	$ 192

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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.

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The amount of assets recognised by the entity, which are leased under finance leases.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Note Expiry date 2019-01-01
-Name IAS
-Number 17
-IssueDate 2018-01-01
-Paragraph 31
-Subparagraph a
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-URIDate 2018-03-16

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