As a result of the ultimate success of British Columbia foray into online gambling, the other Canada states have been contemplating following suit. These days there were some news from the provinces of Quebec as well as from Ontario.
The Montreal based Amaya Gaming group is also including the online gambling software developer Chartwell Technology known to have been signed an agreement with the Societe du jeu virtuel du Quebec in order to provide the content of online gaming for its gaming website, Espace-jeux.
Loto-Quebec is known to be owned by the Canadian provincial government of Quebec. An Amaya spokesman affirmed that the company is currently an authorized provider that was chosen by Loto-Quebec.
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation reached the estimation that Ontarians wager C$450 million in online gambling year by year. It made a prediction that the provincial government may benefit by a great amount of C$100 million in tax revenues over a period of almost 5 years.
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has issued a Proposals Request that is going to invite some online gambling companies that are interested in submitting their proposals for a new program operation.
The spokesman of The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Tony Bitonti, told the Toronto Sun these days that the they will be reviewed in better details, due to the fact that all the commission wants is getting it right the 1st time. He must have been referring to the start up online gambling failure in British Columbia. Bitonti affirmed that the purpose was starting to phase in online gambling in 2012, to boost the 1.9 billion dollars annual contribution of Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to the provincial coffers from lotteries as well as casinos.
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