We Take a Look at How the Outdated Online Gambling Laws in Canada Likely To Hurt the Local Market

Online gambling laws in Canada are entirely outdated, and fail to cover online casino play in any sensible way, as most Canadian online gamblers probably already know. Let’s just sketch the outline of the current online gambling laws in Canada.

It is basically illegal for Canadian residents to bet at any location, either online or in the real world, that has not been locally licensed at a provincial level. This means every large international online casino site is basically illegal for Canadian online gamblers to play at. However, no single Canadian online gambler has ever been prosecuted for playing at an illegal online casino, so most players are happy to carry on with their online gambling, on the premise that they are probably never going to get into trouble for it.

Now, online gambling law in Canada does allow Canadian online gamblers to play at provincially licensed online casino sites. Most usually, these are operated by the same company that runs the local provincial lottery. Unfortunately for Canadian online gamblers, these sites are often lacking in features, and tend not to provide a very good online casino environment.

Online gambling law also says that it is illegal for an online casino to offer its services to Canadian online gamblers if it is located in Canada. There is nothing actually written into Canada’s online gambling law about offshore online casino operators, although we have seen many online gambling sites pull out of Canada recently, due to the possibility that the current gambling law could be construed as making them illegally operated online casino sites.

So, we have Canadian online gamblers blatantly ignoring a law, due to the fact that no single person has ever been prosecuted for breaking it. We have locally licensed online gambling sites operated by provincial lottery companies that do not provide very good online casino play, and we have many of the major international online casino sites pulling out of Canada, along with other online gambling related companies such as Skrill.

Unless Canada does something to update its antiquated online gambling laws, Canadian online gamblers are going to find it every more difficult to located a great online casino site to play at. Also consider how much tax revenue the Canadian government is missing out on by not being more progressive in its stance towards online gambling.

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