British Columbia’s government has bowed out of a court matter in Ontario that aims to determine if it’s legal for residents of Canada’s most populous province to play daily fantasy contests, poker games, and other forms of online gambling against competitors outside the country.
Ontario referred its question about legal sports betting and iGaming to the province’s Court of Appeal earlier this year. The Attorney General of British Columbia was later approved as an intervener for the reference, with a full hearing scheduled for late November.
B.C. fought to introduce evidence for the reference as well, including documents alleging residents of the Western Canadian province were being nudged by some Ontario-regulated iGaming operators toward international affiliate sites.
