Your comments are supported by the article in the G&M last week that said that: "Canadian teens ranked first among their counterparts in nine OECD countries in terms of average hours spent on unpaid and paid labour during the school week.

Canadian teens averaged 7.1 hours of unpaid and paid labour per day in 2005 – a 50-hour work week"

This number was made up of " school work, homework, paid work and housework" and "Homework was the most time-consuming unpaid activity for teens, with 60 per cent averaging two hours, 20 minutes every day".