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Employee Benefit Plan - Additional Information (Detail) - CAD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020
Employees Benefit [Abstract]
Individual contributions under defined contribution pension plan	3.00%	2.00%
Total expense under the defined contribution plan	$ 6	$ 6

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- Definition

The amount of post-employment benefit expense relating to defined contribution plans. Defined contribution plans are post-employment benefit plans under which an entity pays fixed contributions into a separate entity (a fund) and will have no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employee benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Name IAS
-Number 19
-IssueDate 2021-01-01
-Paragraph 53
-URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/xifrs-link?type=IAS&num=19&code=ifrs-tx-2021-en-r&anchor=para_53&doctype=Standard
-URIDate 2021-03-24

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Defined contribution plans percentage

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Employees Benefit [abstract]

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