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Dividends Payable, Annual Aggregate Dividend

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Aggregate dividends declared during the period for each share of common stock outstanding.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.3-04)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27012166&loc=d3e187085-122770

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Amount of paid and unpaid common stock dividends declared with the form of settlement in cash.

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Shares - Dividends (Details)						3 Months Ended					12 Months Ended
Shares - Dividends (Details)	Jan. 03, 2020 CAD ($)	Oct. 04, 2019 CAD ($)	Jul. 05, 2019 CAD ($)	Apr. 05, 2019 CAD ($)	Jan. 04, 2019 CAD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 $ / shares $ / shares	Sep. 30, 2019 $ / shares	Jun. 30, 2019 $ / shares	Mar. 31, 2019 $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2018 $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2019 $ / shares $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2019 CAD ($) $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2018 CAD ($)
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Per share						$ 0.04	$ 0.04	$ 0.02	$ 0.02	$ 0.02
Total paid or payable \| $		$ 1,028	$ 505	$ 503	$ 500							$ 3,066,000	$ 1,996,000
Annual aggregate dividend (in CAD per share)						$ 0.12					$ 0.12	$ 0.12
Quarterly dividends paid (CAD per share)											$ 0.16
Subsequent event
Equity, Class of Treasury Stock [Line Items]
Total paid or payable \| $	$ 1,030,000