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A Biased Report

Two university professors in Canada are questioning the legitimacy of a report released just weeks ago from the Canadian Gambling Association. The two professors, Professor Robert Williams of Lethbridge University and Professor Peter McKenna from the University of Prince Edward Island, have vocally criticized the recent report on the land and online casinos gambling industry, claiming that the Association presented the public with highly biased statistics on gambling industry. The two professors released their responses to the report independently of each other yet both essentially had the same arguments and found similar fault-points in the report.

A large part of the argument against the presentation of information in the Association’s report centers on the fact that Association does not focus on where the money comes from that funds Canadian land and online casinos gambling. Professor Williams notes that the Association’s report gives “...a lot of attention to where the money goes, but they conveniently don't ask where does the money come from.” Both professors faulted the report on failing to mention that as much as a third of the money gambled at the land and online casinos comes from problem and addictive gamblers. But at the same time, neither professor backed up these claims with statistical research, so there is no indication on the veracity of these claims either.

Professor McKenna countered the report with further claims that problem land and online casinos gamblers cost society a lot of money, which then counters the amount of revenue the Association claims is used to benefit the economy. McKenna notes, "The cost of a single gambling addict to society is somewhere between $15 000 and $20 000 a year - some have put it up as high as $50 000," observed McKenna, who recently released a book on gambling titled "Terminal Damage. I don't think it's just a moral issue, I think it's a taxpayer issue and a societal issue." But as with Professor Williams’ argument, there are specific research studies and statistics that back up these claims.