Newfoundland Against Online Casino Legalization

September 01, 2010 | News Category: Gaming Law

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While British Columbia and other provinces in Canada have opened up, or are in the process of opening up, their online gambling worlds, Newfoundland has taken a strong position opposing this move.

It seems that at the moment, there are very few locations that are neutral when it comes to online gambling. Either they already have online gambling, or they are strongly for or against it. While the rest of Canada seems to be going the way of legalizing and regulating online gambling, Newfoundland simply does not want to, or at least, the local provincial government simply does not want to legalize online gambling at this time.

The Newfoundland government have made it public knowledge that they do not want online gambling in their province, and that they are trying to block online casinos from starting there. The reason that many other provinces are in favor of opening up their markets to online gambling is because they will receive huge tax benefits since legalized online gambling sites can bring in large amounts of taxation revenue.

Many countries are turning to online gambling to help keep them in better shape financially, as are certain Canadian provinces. Newfoundland, however, would not like to have any of that. It seems that the Canadian province has enough tax income from both tobacco and alcohol to feel the need to allow online gambling to be legal.

Newfoundland is opposed to online gambling, and would prefer that it is totally blocked from their province. They are not attracted by the extra income, and their government officials seem to be in opposition to online gambling for the most part. Although it seems that the Premier has noted that the Atlantic Lottery has made some mention about online gambling in Newfoundland, nothing has yet been done about it. It certainly seems that if there was a move to legalize online gambling in Newfoundland, that it would not likely happen because many of the government officials are opposed to it.

Of course, there are also those provinces and countries that would prefer legalized online gambling, not because of the licensing fees that they can charge, or for the taxation benefits, but because they feel it is safer for their citizens. Regulating and legalizing online gambling certainly makes it safer for the players because when online gambling is unregulated, there is always the fear that there could be scam online casinos, and much more out there that players would prefer to avoid.