Lawyers recognize the dollar value of unpaid work – house work and child care – and have calculated it carefully based on Statistics Canada data: BC – $15.46/hr., Alberta – $15.35/hr, Ontario – $16.22/hr, NWT – $27.46/hr
July/Aug 2011 – Brown’s Economic Damages Newsletter – “Housekeeping Claims: Time Use Data from Statistics Canada’s 2010 General Social Survey (GSS), cycle 24” see chart p. 8
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