Canada’s gambling landscape is once again being quietly refashioned.
Walk into nearly any corner store in the country and the sight of a lottery terminal doesn’t cause so much as a ripple, but that wasn’t always so. Before Parliament changed the Criminal Code in 1969, lotteries were actually illegal in Canada. Once the new rules came in, Quebec quickly threw its hat in the ring and the other provinces soon fell like dominoes.
The move to decriminalize lotteries came with little public discussion or political debate. Much like Hemingway’s line about bankruptcy, the change happened gradually and then suddenly. Skip ahead to today and Canada’s gambling landscape is once again being quietly refashioned.
By Paul Haavardsrud – CBC News – March 24, 2015
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