Quebec Prepares for Licensed Online Casino
Now that the province of Quebec has decided to allow online gambling within the province as long as the sites are licensed in the province, Alain Cousineau, the CEO of Loto-Quebec, is working on providing a platform to provide the software. The government of Quebec will create a committee of independent experts to monitor online gambling’s effects in Quebec.
This is to help with the objections of those like Sol Boxenbaum who are strongly anti-gambling. Boxenbaum says that the committee’s results will not be useful. He claims that rt that the advisory committee expects to release will be useless. Boxenbaum maintains, “Three years from now, you’re looking at suicides, you’re looking at bankruptcies, you’re looking at all kinds of things that can go wrong.”
Finance Minister Raymond Bachand took a more optimistic view, saying “We have authorized Loto-Québec to develop online games but we are going to ensure that everything is done to maintain… the fight against gambling addiction.”
For those who enjoy online gambling, the news is good despite the debates that continue to rage. Quebec’s residents will be able to gamble at a casino that is maintained by Loto-Quebec and overseen by the province. Making deposits will be easy for Quebec’s residents, as the business will be local and legal. Best of all, regulation will mean that the law, not the whim of the casino owner, will have the final say in any dispute between the casino and the player.
