In Ontario, there's something called "Student wage" that's a fair bit lower than minimum wage. There's one in BC too as I recall, and probably most other provinces.
Lower than the $7.25 wage?
Wait, why is it exactly $7.25? Seems very round. We get ours adjusted annually to match the strength of the dollar, you guys get the same, right? Otherwise not only are you getting fucked, but getting fucked progressively harder with each year.
Ontario is a Canadian province, guy.
Anyhow, the minimum wage is $10.25, but living beside the US I'd estimate that everything in the States is ~30% cheaper than in Canada, with some things being cheaper than that (eg. milk is something like a quarter of the price in Detroit compared to here, everything at McDonalds is a size smaller for the same price, the "five dollar footlong" is more like ten dollars, etc). So functionally, its about the same. Ontario has a student wage of $9.60, which is a fair bit lower and is used by most of the local restaurants and so on.
It's an okay system, but its still not beneficial. At least around here, it means getting an actual "job" as a student, even with the lower wage, is tricky. A lot comes down to being pals with the guy who owns the furniture store/restaurant/gas station, and whoop-dee-doo, you have a job! Otherwise, you either have to be lucky with applications to get in in the first place, or you don't get a job for a while. There's always seasonal farm work in the county, though, but that's paid differently than most work so there isn't really a minimum wage for a lot of it.
Again, I'd much prefer having an easy time getting an entry level $3 job for a while and then proving I'm not a lazy bum and getting a raise over having to go through a load of pain to get a 9$ student wage job.