Cash collected to be used to purchase Common Stock in future periods

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Purchase Price Discount

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Shares Eligible for Issuance

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Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/exampleRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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SHARE CAPITAL, OPTION PLANS AND SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS - RSUs, DSUs and ESPP (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Long Term Incentive Plan
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting period			3 years
Restricted Share Units \| Minimum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting period			2 years
Restricted Share Units \| Maximum
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Award vesting period			3 years
Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Awards purchase price discount			15.00%
Common shares eligible for issuance (in shares)	227,885	172,782	582,350	398,513
Cash received from employee stock purchase plan	$ 5.8	$ 7.0	$ 13.8	$ 16.4