The MPP [member of the provincial parliament] for Niagara Falls says the government needs to make a study on gambling public, as the Ford government opens the Niagara gaming market. Wayne Gates says the government hasn’t released an online gambling study it paid for and conducted.
Gates points to a Toronto Star investigative report which revealed the Doug Ford government’s provincial agency, iGaming Ontario, suppressed and heavily redacted a commissioned study that showed problem gambling rates in Ontario were significantly higher than expected.
The government officially legalized and launched Ontario’s open, regulated online gaming market in 2022…
According to Gates, the OLG reports $136 million [US$97.3 million] was lost last year at brick and mortar casinos, along with 10,000 jobs across the province, because of the introduction of online gambling and gaming.
