Blog entry published on 21 June 2010
Online Gambling Pact Good for Kahnawake Good for Canada
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There are not many things that warm the cockles of my heart more than the company of a good woman, good food and drink, good company, good television and good progress concerning the state of affairs of online gambling in Canada, my native country.
You see I'm an online gambling writer which means I write for a variety of media on just about all aspects of online gambling specific to Canada, including news, reviews, reports, studies and so forth. And I have to say that while us Canadians are a hundred times more forward-thinking on the online gambling issue than our conservative neighbours to the south, we too have a long, long way to go.
For instance, the government of Canadian province, Quebec, is still for a state-controlled online gambling market because it [unfairly] views the fast-growing internet activity as the 'poster child' for problem and/or underage gambling. And it doesn't help that Indian reservation, Kahnawake - which is located in Quebec - is one of the world's foremost online gambling jurisdictions, and one which has issued licenses to many of the world's most popular online gambling websites.
In fact, just last week lawmakers in Quebec were left shaking their heads after the Kahnawake Gaming Commission and the gambling regulator for the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda formed a special 'inter-jurisdictional alliance.'
Up until now it has been easy for Quebec lawmakers to point fingers at Kahnawake and blame it for the nation's online gambling woes, it may harder for them to do so now that it is affiliated to Antigua and Barbuda. And the reason is that Antigua and Barbuda, itself a prominent online gambling jurisdiction, has the complete backing of the British government.
So by labeling Kahnawake as an 'outcast', government officials in Quebec are indirectly 'criticizing' Great Britain's online gambling policy, the country that some years ago opted to legalize and regulate online gambling. As part of the alliance, Antigua's clients will be able to access to the wider bandwidth and technical services offered by Kahnawake's Mohawk Internet Technologies (MIT), while MIT could benefit by picking up new business.
 | Posted by Anton Johan at 10:24 on 21 June 2010 |
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