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.