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SUPPLEMENTARY CASH FLOWS INFORMATION | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Cash Flow Statement [Abstract] |
SUPPLEMENTARY CASH FLOWS INFORMATION | SUPPLEMENTARY CASH FLOWS INFORMATION Changes in non-cash working capital are as follows:
|  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
Cash provided by (used in) non-cash working capital: |  |  |  |  |  |
Accounts receivable |  | $ | 0.3 |  |  | $ | (35.9 | )
Contracts in progress: assets |  | (58.5 | ) |  | (3.7 | )
Inventories |  | 2.2 |  |  | (55.5 | )
Prepayments |  | 19.7 |  |  | 1.2 |
Income taxes recoverable |  | (6.5 | ) |  | 4.4 |
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities |  | (58.2 | ) |  | 16.2 |
Provisions |  | (21.0 | ) |  | (2.1 | )
Income taxes payable |  | 11.1 |  |  | (1.0 | )
Deferred revenue |  | 99.0 |  |  | 79.2 |
Contracts in progress: liabilities |  | (31.2 | ) |  | 26.3 |
Changes in non-cash working capital |  | $ | (43.1 | ) |  | $ | 29.1 |

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