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The portion of the difference between total income tax expense or benefit as reported in the Income Statement and the expected income tax expense or benefit computed by applying the Canadian statutory income tax rates to pretax income from continuing operations attributable to changes in the valuation allowance for deferred tax assets in the period.

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Increase (decrease) for taxes on income (loss) resulting.

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Amount of current state and local tax expense (benefit) pertaining to income (loss) from continuing operations.

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