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Operating leases | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Leases1 [Abstract] |
Operating leases | Finance lease liability: The Corporation leases its head office building under finance lease agreements. The finance lease has an imputed interest rate of 7.35% per annum and expires in February 2025. Finance lease liabilities are payable as follows:
| December 31, |  | December 31, |
| 2018 |  | 2017 |
Building lease | $ | 631 |  | $ | 638 |
Machinery lease | — |  | 14 |
Finance lease liability, current | $ | 631 |  | $ | 652 |
Building lease | $ | 5,064 |  | $ | 6,191 |
Machinery lease | — |  | 38 |
Finance lease liability, non-current | $ | 5,064 |  | $ | 6,229 |
| Future minimum |  |  |  |  | Present value of minimum lease |
At December 31, 2018 | lease payments |  |  | Interest |  |  | payments |
Less than one year | $ | 1,023 |  |  | $ | 392 |  |  | $ | 631 |
Between one and five years | 4,710 |  |  | 960 |  |  | 3,750 |
More than five years | 1,374 |  |  | 60 |  |  | 1,314 |
| $ | 7,107 |  |  | $ | 1,412 |  |  | $ | 5,695 |
Current |  |  |  |  | $ | 631 |
Non-current |  |  |  |  | 5,064 |
|  |  |  |  | $ | 5,695 |
17. | Finance lease liability (cont'd):
| Future minimum |  |  |  |  | Present value of minimum lease |
At December 31, 2017 | lease payments |  |  | Interest |  |  | payments |
Less than one year | $ | 1,127 |  |  | $ | 475 |  |  | $ | 652 |
Between one and five years | 4,992 |  |  | 1,323 |  |  | 3,669 |
More than five years | 2,774 |  |  | 214 |  |  | 2,560 |
| $ | 8,893 |  |  | $ | 2,012 |  |  | $ | 6,881 |
Current |  |  |  |  | $ | 652 |
Non-current |  |  |  |  | 6,229 |
|  |  |  |  | $ | 6,881 |
The finance lease liability consists primarily of the lease of the Corporation's head office building of $5,695,000 (2017 - $6,829,000) and machinery leased by its subsidiary, Protonex of $nil (2017 - $52,000). Deferred gains were also recorded on closing of the finance lease agreement and are amortized over the finance lease term. At December 31, 2018, the outstanding deferred gain was $2,566,000 (2017 – $2,982,000). Operating leases: In addition to other minor operating leases, the Corporation leases a facility at its Burnaby, Canada location (which has been assessed as an operating lease). This facility had a lease term expiring in 2019 which was extended to 2027 under a lease extension and modification agreement signed in December 2017. During 2018, lease payments of $2,144,000 relating to this lease were expensed (2017 - $2,107,000). At December 31, 2018, the Corporation is committed to payments under all operating leases as follows:
Less than 1 year | $ | 2,335 |
1-3 years | 4,436 |
4-5 years | 4,148 |
Thereafter | 6,851 |
Total minimum lease payments | $ | 17,770 |

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