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So Who's Right?

Internet gambling in Canada is one of those touchy subjects recently – everyone has an opinion on the activity and statistics from every front are widely criticized. The Canadian Gambling Association recently released a report that included statistics concerning online casinos gambling in the country that were fairly positive. But it didn’t take long for two professors at two Canadian universities to find fault with the report. The professors are alleging that the statistics in the report are largely one-sided and biased and do not provide an honest look at the societal effects of land and online casinos gambling.

The two academics, Professor Robert Williams from Lethbridge University in Alberta and Professor Peter McKenna from the University of Prince Edward Island both contend that the report fails to honestly access the affects of addiction on their statistics. Both professors independently claimed that land and online casinos gambling is not as rosy as the Canadian Gambling Association’s report indicated.

But interestingly, at the same time the two professors did not provide the necessary statistics to back up their claims. They indicated that the land and online casinos gambling industry is largely funded by problem gamblers, yet neither sited statistical evidence to back up those claims.

Professor McKenna was also highly critical of the impact of land and online casinos gambling on the local economy, something that he feels was understated in the Association’s report. McKenna notes, "The economic benefits are fairly limited, and what's forgotten in that kind of a calculation is that there is a cost to the local economy," McKenna said. "There's no new money that comes into these areas, you're simply re-circulating the money that's there, so if the money is going into a casino, that means it's not going into the local businesses." As mentioned though, as critical of the report as these two professors were, neither used statistical research to back up their assertions and criticisms.