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Add Alberta Into the Mix

Alberta has been relatively quite over the past several months as most of the Canadian provinces have begun to make a lot of noise about the launching of provincially run online casinos. The Canadian government has chosen to just blatantly overlook the internet gambling industry issue and refuses to regulate the online casino sites accessing Canadian gamblers. In the past several months nearly every single province in Canada has announced some kind of plan is in the works to license and regulate their provincial gambling markets. Alberta has remained silent, however, for months now but has now finally announced that the Alberta government is also considering a state-run internet gambling site.

The bulk of the issue facing these provincial government is the actual licensing and development of the online casinos themselves, as the British Columbian government found out just last month. The BC government raced to pass through regulations and launch a state operated gambling site – and within hours of launching a vicious hack on the site turned the online casino situation into a debacle of epic proportions. With the BC situation to watch out for now the others are approaching the licensing and launching of sites with more caution. Saskatchewan is still considering the process while Ontario, Atlantic and Quebec are still really narrowing down their regulatory scheme.

Through all of this, Alberta is really taking a back seat and watching as the other Canadian provinces sort through their regulations and stance on the online casino industry. The province really wants to proceed with a steady and thorough approach to ensure that an expanded land gambling industry does not increase the incidence of problem gambling in the country.