Gambling Canada Online
Online gambling is a gray area. Canadian gambling law doesn’t prohibit gambling on the internet so long as the operator or service provider has a license. That’s on the federal level. But every province or territory also sets their own gambling laws. When it comes to online casinos established within Canada, they will be licensed at a provincial level. This means that it is the individual province’s job to ensure that the online casino in question is adequately licensed. In the case of international online casinos, Canadian provincial bodies have no say in how they are regulated.
Canada Online Gambling Laws
ASome gambling commissions (who ensure gambling sites are operating legally) have rules stating that gambling sites cannot accept players from a specific country unless they’re licensed to operate there.Take PokerStars, for example. They operated in Australia using a loophole in the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. However, Australia passed a new law and the ACMA threatened to tattle on PokerStars’ to gambling commissions.
One of those commissions was the New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement. They threatened to pull PokerStars’ New Jersey license if they didn’t cease operations in Australia.
