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Another Canadian Province Considers

The online casino gambling industry in Canada is rapidly developing into a very strong and regulated industry despite the government’s refusal to nationally regulate the pastime. Now that internet gambling is seen as an eventuality by so many nations all over the world, the Canadian provinces have announced their plans to individually regulate various sectors of the industry – including internet lotteries, online casinos, forms of betting, and poker. The latest province to announce the consideration of new internet gambling laws is Manitoba, Canada. Manitoba’s officials are in the consideration phase and are in no way promising that legalized internet gambling is coming to the province, but did not that they are looking into the possibilities.

Steve Ashton, the Lotteries Minister for Manitoba, has formally announced that the online casinos are on the provinces agenda right now. He also noted, however, that there were plans to thoroughly look into all of the implications of a legalized internet gambling industry before making any decision. Ashton emphasized that it could take until the end of the year before the Manitoba officials were ready to make any sort of decisive action one way or the other. On the docket for consideration though is a state-run online casino gambling site that works in addition to what is already on offer from the offshore industry. The state run site would offer gamblers the opportunity to knowingly gamble at a safe and secure site with protections in place for underage and problem gamblers.

That’s the key motivating force behind Manitoba’s possible decision to launch a state run online casino betting and gambling site, to offer a safe alternative to what’s already on the market. There has been talk that the government could potentially work with other provinces on this, but it’s all speculation at this point.