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Actually at age 18 you are considered an adult, no longer a minor therefore responsible for your own actions. At 18 you can legally move out of your parents home and be dependent on yourself, although you may have a hard time finding a place to rent as most landlords will not let you sign a lease with out a co signer, normally they want you to be 21 or older in order to sign a lease

18 in some provinces(AB, MB, QC) you can legally drink, 19 for the rest.

You can be held responsible for criminal acts at as young as 12 depending on the act. There have been cases as well where the children are younger then 12 and they have been sent to a juvenile facility to serve a sentence. Although your record will be sealed once you hit 18 (?) which is not always true because if you apply to the RCMP, provincial or city police services or the Canadian Forces they have access to your juvenile record.

If you are old enough to know the difference between right and wrong then you are old enough to be held responsible for your actions!

Do you mean "what is the legal drinking age"?

It is 19 in Canada.

In Canada, you are considered an "adult" at age 18.

I'm just throwing stuff out there. Your question isn't specific enough to understand what "responsible for your actions" means. It could be anything from DUI to B&E to committing murder. Difficult to answer.

NOTE: Sorry, Caroline... didn't realize the drinking age was different in each province. I thought 19 was Canada-wide.

You are an adult at 18, so from 18 onward, you are responsible for your actions. That doesn't mean, however, that 17-year olds aren't expected to be responsible as well. But if they do something spectacularly dumb, they are tried in juvenile court, rather than adult court, and sentences in juvie are lighter.

You are a minor until age 19. At that point your parents are no longer responsible for you.

This has nothing to do with the drinking age, as this varies from province to province. Americans should understand that: yoiu have to be 21 to be responsible enough to drink, but you are old enough to go to Iraq and get your *** blown off when you are 18.

even if you're younger than 19 you are responsible for your actions. Court will assign a nice social worker to take care of you:)