Troy Ross on Canada’s Gaming Shake-Up: Provinces in Play

As we prepare to close the book on May and begin ironing our shirts and socks in preparation for next month’s Canadian Gaming Summit (registration information with a family discount – well, sort of – can be found below) in the city below Georgina, Troy Ross of TRM Public Affairs made his return to the Gaming News Canada Show.

 

Among the topics on the agenda for our chin wag with the business/regulation of gaming veteran:

 

• Recent reporting by Geoff Zochodne for Covers and Global Gaming News on sports betting and igaming operators making their pitch to the policymakers in British Columbia to bring an open gambling market to Canada’s most western province;
• The case for an open market in B.C. a la Ontario (and, over the next 12 months, Alberta), including the ongoing success by OLG in Ontario’s bigly competitive industry. (We recommend checking out Dave Briggs’s reporting in yesterday’s newsletter);
• The case for an open marketplace in La Belle Province (despite the ongoing efforts by the Quebec Online Gaming Coalition, the chances appear to be slim to none and slim has disappeared to an unknown locale. . .);
• The official separation of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario and iGaming Ontario by the Douglas Ford government. And, the creation of a new Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Gaming with Stan Cho in the minister’s parking space.

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