The World of Canadian Gambling Gets Bigger

As we have come to expect over the past couple of years, online casinos are still a much debated topic. Canadian online casino gambling is becoming more and more popular and experts on the subject are worried that problem gambling will increase. To be specific, one gentleman who has become synonymous for the anti online casino movement is the Lethbridge University academic Robert Williams. He has expressed recently that he is growing more and more worried about the Canadian publics exposure to online casinos. He thinks that the accessibility of internet gambling and the high payouts with little to no over head will prove to be a big issue for the general public.

The problem is that online casinos are becoming more popular than the land based casinos. Williams has become an anti online casino figure and has recently been telling everyone that will listen the pit falls of online gambling. He claims that online casinos entice players to spend more money than they would if they were at land based casino. The biggest point that he makes is that internet gambling websites allow for more underage gambling to occur. The studies that Williams sites are ones that prove that students from the United States that range from high school to college aged students have played at online casinos at one time or another.

The average amount of money that a Canadian loses at an online casino is $541 in one month as opposed to the $82 that a player loses at a land based casino. The current rate of problem gambling is only at three percent but Williams warns that the number will soon jump drastically. Williams said, "Online gambling is almost impossible to prohibit. The Mohawks there are so militant in advancing their sovereignty issues and it's such a sensitive area for the Quebec government that they choose not to prosecute." In other words, he believes that online casinos are going to operate whether he likes it or not, but if he has any say in it they will be heavily regulated.