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Ontario Wants a Piece Too!

The Canadian online casino gambling industry is on the verge of an explosion this year as several Canadian provinces have announced plans to take the regulation process into their own hands and license forms of internet gambling within the provinces. Quebec was the first of the provinces to announce that the National Lottery would launching into the industry and starting its own online casinos to compete with the hundreds of foreign sites that are already targeting Canadian gamblers because of the regulatory void in the country. As Quebec readies for a fuller online casino gambling presence, Ontario has now announced an interest in also allowing the Ontario Lottery the ability to launch into internet gambling.

Ontario officials are not sold on the online casino gambling industry yet, not like Quebec, where there is a strong movement and efforts to pass through regulations in the very near future. In Ontario though, the internet gambling industry is looked at as a way to expand revenues in the province and also keep the current gambling funds within the province; if Ontario is the only province without an presence through the online casinos and internet lottery, then Ontario gamblers will seek out other web sites and that money will leave the province.

In addition to Quebec, the Ontario officials are concerned that a lack of progress in regards to an online casino gambling industry would put the province well behind many of the other provinces in the country including Nova Scotia and British Columbia. The same argument is standing true in Ontario as it has in other provinces and even other countries – the online gambling is happening and there is little way to effectively stop the pastime so it is better to receive a portion of the regulations from the industry.