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Tricky Decisions Facing Canada

The Canadian government is facing a lot of speculation from the global online casinos gambling industry after rumors and reports that a major land horserace betting company seeks a nation-wide ban on internet gambling. There are current few regulations in place in the Canadian government to address the number of online casinos sites licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. Other companies (like CryptoLogic although the company recently relocated to Dublin, Ireland) operate internet gambling companies from locations within Canada. The problem for many land betting and gambling operators in Canada is they claim that internet gambling cuts into their profits – and for that they are pushing for a nation-wide prohibition on online casinos gambling.

Industry analysts though have calmed most of the fears from players and others in the Canadian online casinos industry by looking at past precedence and the current global climate. The fact is, Canada traditionally rules in favor of regulation of debatable issue rather than a straight out prohibition of the activity. Michael Lipton commented to Casino City that Canadian “history demonstrates that over the past 50 or 60 years the trend is to regulate, not prohibit. It happened with horse racing about five years ago. It happened with land-based casinos in 1969 and then it happened again about seven years ago when those casinos were allowed to start offering craps so they could compete with the border casinos."

This means that the uproar and debate within the Canadian online casinos gambling industry over these latest issues is largely unfounded. Other industry analysts point to the fact that prohibition in the Untied States has been extremely poorly received by the global gaming industry and Canada is not likely to attempt a similar form of legislation.