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Business Acquisition, Shares Conversion Ratio

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Date when the business acquisition agreement was executed, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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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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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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General - Business Combination (Details) - Enbridge-Spectra Proposed Merger - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Billions	3 Months Ended	9 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2017	Sep. 30, 2016	Sep. 02, 2016
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Acquisition, Share Price Premium			11.50%
Scenario, Forecast
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Acquisition, Percentage of Voting Interests Acquired	43.00%
Enbridge, Inc \| Spectra Energy Corp
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Acquisition, Date of Acquisition Agreement		Sep. 02, 2016
Business Acquisition, Shares Conversion Ratio			0.984
Business Acquisition, Share Price			$ 40.33
Enbridge, Inc \| Scenario, Forecast
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Acquisition, Percentage of Voting Interests Acquired	57.00%
Enbridge, Inc \| Scenario, Forecast \| Spectra Energy Corp
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business Combination, Consideration Transferred	$ 28