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Class of Warrant or Right, Expected Milestone Payment

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Amount of equity interests of the acquirer, including instruments or interests issued or issuable in consideration for the business combination.

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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Period between issuance and expiration of outstanding warrant and right embodying unconditional obligation requiring redemption by transferring asset at specified or determinable date or upon event certain to occur, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Warrants (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions, $ in Millions			1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jan. 24, 2022	Jul. 15, 2021	Jul. 31, 2021	Mar. 31, 2022	Dec. 31, 2021
Canada Consulting Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right
Initial exercise price (in USD per share)		$ 6.36
Class of warrant or right, exercisable (in shares)		0.2	0.2
Expected milestone payment			$ 3.0
OpCo Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right
Initial exercise price (in USD per share)				$ 6.23
Class of warrant or right, exercisable (in shares)				0.6	0.6
Warrants
Class of Warrant or Right
Business combination, consideration transferred, equity interests issued and issuable (in shares)	$ 2.3
Initial exercise price (in USD per share)	$ 3.76
Warrants and rights outstanding, term	10 years