Issues and talks about online casinos are never ending. Many countries worldwide made changes regarding online casinos while others are just beginning to implement some changes. The UK government has proven that online casinos can be regulated, which is why online casinos do not have any problems in the UK. Other than that, online casinos have shown to that they have the ability to improve a country’s economic standings, for they have provided jobs to numerous people in and outside UK. Other countries are already realizing it and thus starting to change their regulations regarding online casinos.
One of the countries who made changes on online casino regulations includes Canada. Even though Canada always hand numerous land based or brick and mortar casinos, there is a major chance happening. Loto Quebec has just recently announced that they will already be offering a new online casino that is available only for Canadians. The announcement has gotten numerous responses and reactions including many of Canada’s public health officials who objected the offering of online casinos. According to the objecting public health officials, online casinos should not be offered, for they are worried about the regulation needed for online casinos.
On the other hand, despite of the objections the announcement has received, Minister Raymond Bachand supports Loto Quebec’s announcement of offering online casinos to Canadians. Bachand never felt that online casino would increase problems in gambling, but instead felt that having an online casino only requires another move. Even though there are already plenty of online casinos are offered in Canada including many of the UK based online casinos that offer their services to Canada and Quebecers, Loto Quebec’s online casino will be the first all Canada online casino to be opened.
According to Bachand, the site’s purpose is not to collect funds from Canadian citizens but instead, they are just going to redirect the money of these online casino players that are spent offshore. The idea of opening an all Canadian online casino is to have a little bit of control and give the money back to the Canada rather than giving it off to a foreign company. The offering of online casino creates a hope of having revenue that will help balance Canada and offer some public programs that are currently lacking.
The online casinos will be under the regulation of the Canadian government, for they want to make sure that these casinos are offering fair outcomes. The government already has Spin Palace and Ruby Fortunes under their government, thus adding Loto Quebec will be of no big difference. The government is willing enough to make sure that they will be handling the gambling industry in a responsible way.
For Canadians, the opening of an all Canada online casino will surely be a good thing. Even if the casino is only for Canadians, one thing for sure, this will bring in revenue to the Canadian government. With the continuous popularity of online gambling casinos, changes on regulations from different countries are expected in the year 2010.