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Financial and Other Assets (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Financial Instruments [Abstract] |
Schedule of Financial and Other Assets |
(CAD$ in millions) |  | December 31, 2020 |  | December 31, 2019
Long-term receivables and deposits |  | $ | 289 |  |  | $ | 268 |
Marketable equity and debt securities carried at fair value |  | 178 |  |  | 183 |
Pension plans in a net asset position (Note 23(a)) |  | 301 |  |  | 360 |
Derivative assets |  | 77 |  |  | 28 |
Long-term portion of inventories (Note 13) |  | 84 |  |  | 75 |
Finite life intangibles |  | 309 |  |  | 162 |
Other |  | 31 |  |  | 33 |
|  | $ | 1,269 |  |  | $ | 1,109 |

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