Oh, I forgot about voting. That's 18 (and alcohol, tobacco and weed ages are set by the province, but the federal minimum is now 18, too. When I was young, there was no federal minimum age for cigarettes.)

BUT, you can quit school, leave home, rent a place, hold a full-time job, and co-habitate with a sexual partner, and Children's Aid can't touch you. But you were expected to have been trained and educated enough to be able to take care of yourself by that age. And my advice to the young, from experience, isn't to "stay in school", it's to "get a trade", and one that can't be exported.

Oh, I forgot about voting. That's 18 (and alcohol, tobacco and weed ages are set by the province, but the federal minimum is now 18, too. When I was young, there was no federal minimum age for cigarettes.)

BUT, you can quit school, leave home, rent a place, hold a full-time job, and co-habitate with a sexual partner, and Children's Aid can't touch you. But you were expected to have been trained and educated enough to be able to take care of yourself by that age.