February
2004 Online Casinos News
Next Phase In Online Gambling?
Woodbine Entertainment Group became the
first to offer legal Internet gambling
in Canada last week when it launched
HPIBET.com as a result of regulatory
changes made by the Canadian Pari-Mutuel
Agency last year allowing Internet
wagers on horse racing.
However, while WEG may be the first,
they are certainly not going to be the
only game in town. According to a story
in the National Post today, not to
mention common sense, other gambling
sites are expected to surface.
The question the Post story asks is
now that it is legal to bet on horse
races online, can government-run
Internet casinos be far behind?
"The entire gambling and gaming
industry in Canada is government run, or
quasi-government run," said David
Canton, a technology lawyer in London,
ON, in the report today. According to
him, the next logical step would be
government web casinos.
Bob McCreavy, a CPMA spokesperson,
said that he has heard of at least two
other tracks in Canada that have plans
to offer online wagering services.
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