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Ontario’s Legislative Assembly has passed new consumer protection legislation that contains amendments prohibiting the advertising of dot-com Internet gambling sites. The final version of the bill is a far cry from the one introduced in October by MP Gerry Phillips, which contained a blanket prohibition on advertising any Internet site (dot-com or dot-net) operating an Internet gaming business contrary to the Criminal Code.
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For a province that suddenly wants so badly to abolish all forms of online gambling (with a few exceptions of course), it is ironic that Ontario would be so heavily involved in the sports betting business.

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Another front in governmental war against online gaming was opened this week when legislators in Canada’s Ontario province — of which Toronto is the largest city — announced the introduction of a bill intended to stop all advertising for online gaming. The proposed bill, actually a modification of Ontario’s Consumer Protection Act of 2002, is spearheaded by Ontario Government Services Minister Gerry Phillips, who has said that despite the ‘illegality’ of online gambling, enforcement of existing regulations has not been a high priority.
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Up until now, in Canada online gambling was banned from being publicized on television. However, thanks to a loophole in the law, online poker rooms still continued to advertise in commercials in every major network. How is this possible? Easy. What was advertised were the free features that the casinos offered but without the mention of money.
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Internet gambling and direct advertising of internet gambling is already illegal in the Canadian Province of Ontario. But many sites advertise poker sites where people can play for free using play money to learn the game. However, once a player goes to the free site, they can easily be directed to the site where they can play for real money.

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In March, Peterborough MPP Jeff Leal introduced a private member’s bill in the Ontario Legislature to ban advertising for online gaming. “I’d read reports about college students in the United States racking up tremendous amounts of debt through online gaming,” Leal says. “And here in Ontario we have bona fide gaming, whether it’s horse-racing or slot machines, operated by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, and a number of people in that sector have seen dollars siphoned away to online gaming.”

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