The amount of expense from share-based payment transactions with employees. [Refer: Expense from share-based payment transactions]

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The amount of liabilities that are: (a) a contractual obligation: (i) to deliver cash or another financial asset to another entity; or (ii) to exchange financial assets or financial liabilities with another entity under conditions that are potentially unfavourable to the entity; or (b) a contract that will, or may be, settled in the entity’s own equity instruments and is: (i) a non-derivative for which the entity is, or may be, obliged to deliver a variable number of the entity’s own equity instruments; or (ii) a derivative that will, or may be, settled other than by the exchange of a fixed amount of cash or another financial asset for a fixed number of the entity’s own equity instruments. For this purpose, rights, options or warrants to acquire a fixed number of the entity’s own equity instruments for a fixed amount of any currency are equity instruments if the entity offers the rights, options or warrants pro rata to all of its existing owners of the same class of its own non-derivative equity instruments. Also, for those purposes the entity’s own equity instruments do not include puttable financial instruments that are classified as equity instruments in accordance with paragraphs 16A-16B of IAS 32, instruments that impose on the entity an obligation to deliver to another party a pro rata share of the net assets of the entity only on liquidation and are classified as equity instruments in accordance with paragraphs 16C-16D of IAS 32, or instruments that are contracts for the future receipt or delivery of the entity’s own equity instruments. As an exception, an instrument that meets the definition of a financial liability is classified as an equity instrument if it has all the features and meets the conditions in paragraphs 16A-16B or paragraphs 16C-16D of IAS 32. [Refer: Financial instruments, class [member]; Financial assets; Derivatives [member]]

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The amount of current trade payables and current other payables. [Refer: Current trade payables; Other current payables]

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Summary of Contractual Maturities of Financial Liabilities and Other Contractual Commitments (Detail) $ in Thousands, $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2023 CAD ($)	Dec. 31, 2022 CAD ($)	Dec. 31, 2023 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($)
Disclosure of Nonderivative Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	$ 342,382	$ 392,053
Share-based compensation	(32,063)	(133,647)
Long-term debt, gross	926,199	$ 1,100,551	$ 681,015	$ 800,154
Liquidity risk [Member]
Disclosure of Nonderivative Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	342,382
Share-based compensation	101,773
Long-term debt, gross	929,047
Interest on long-term debt	243,346
Commitments	245,385
Total	1,861,933
Liquidity risk [Member] \| 2024 [Member]
Disclosure of Nonderivative Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	342,382
Share-based compensation	67,117
Long-term debt, gross	2,848
Interest on long-term debt	65,030
Commitments	105,803
Total	583,180
Liquidity risk [Member] \| 2025 [Member]
Disclosure of Nonderivative Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	0
Share-based compensation	23,523
Long-term debt, gross	12,096
Interest on long-term debt	64,950
Commitments	87,116
Total	187,685
Liquidity risk [Member] \| 2026 [Member]
Disclosure of Nonderivative Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	0
Share-based compensation	11,133
Long-term debt, gross	376,345
Interest on long-term debt	38,305
Commitments	27,267
Total	453,050
Liquidity risk [Member] \| 2027 [Member]
Disclosure of Nonderivative Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	0
Share-based compensation	0
Long-term debt, gross	582
Interest on long-term debt	36,885
Commitments	8,651
Total	46,118
Liquidity risk [Member] \| 2028 [Member]
Disclosure of Nonderivative Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	0
Share-based compensation	0
Long-term debt, gross	7,272
Interest on long-term debt	36,658
Commitments	5,800
Total	49,730
Liquidity risk [Member] \| Thereafter [Member]
Disclosure of Nonderivative Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	0
Share-based compensation	0
Long-term debt, gross	529,904
Interest on long-term debt	1,518
Commitments	10,748
Total	$ 542,170