Canadian standards are shockingly lax and lean heavily in favour of the operator. With an Operations Specification, operators can ask pilots to work 42 days straight without a day off. This same specification allows a maximum of 150 hours of flight time in one month, up to 60 flight hours in one week....there are no daily maximum limits on flight time. Duty days are a standard 14 hours/day.
Absolutely - the "Ice Road Truckers" have more restrictions than Canadian Pilots!
The range of regulations out there vary from the ridiculous to the ridiculous
On one hand e.g. Canada you can be dead on your feet, on the other e.g. UK it takes over 2 days and nights to log one day off.
Whatever happened to common sense? Why would you go flying if you feel too tired to drive a car?
Trog