New Gambling Site Play OLG Goes Live in Ontario

However, that means there are going to be more people who are going to want to try this . . . and inevitably you are going to see a proportion of those people get into trouble with it, noting that suicide is an “unfortunate” aspect of problem gambling. www.thestar.com;

Players must register on the site and establish mandatory weekly maximums for the amount they wish to gamble and the maximum that anyone can deposit each week is $9,900. The players can take money directly from the bank account or use their credit cards. Participants must be at least 18 years old, be the residents of Ontario and must play from within the province.

Progressive Conservatives finance critic Vic Fedeli said that the Ontario government is looking to extract money from the most vulnerable people and that they should control their own spending instead of looking for the new sources of revenue.

If you're in your basement gambling all day because it's easy to do, you're more likely to spend money that you don't have. If anybody should take a lesson on that, it should be the Liberal government, which is desperate for revenue. The research and the evidence points to expanding online gambling leading to increased addiction and increased debt. The New Democrats finance critic Catherine Fife, www.ctvnews.ca;

The New Democrats are concerned about the site claiming that it will increase youth gambling and encourage gambling addiction.

OLG spokesperson Ryan Bissonette said that the site is responsible, safe, regulated and that responsible gambling features are embedded on in it. During the preview, test players were spending $95 a week on average but Robert Murray is worried about the people who will be betting much more.

Ontario is the seventh Canadian province that offers regulated online gambling. The other six are, Quebec, Manitoba, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

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