Canada and the US. They have a common border, speak the same language and pretty much share the same habits. Another commonality is want to suffocate online gambling. Canada's conservative government recently introduced legislation that would ban advertising online gaming Unless the advertising is for government-sanctioned and government operated horse racing, lotteries and brick and morter casinos.
It would seam obvious to most that advertising online gambling in North America would lead to criminal prosecution. But has this legislation from both sides of the 49th parrell put web casino advertising to the sword? Granted, there has been a marked drop in the amount of paid internet gambling web advertising. But have you checked your e-mail account’s spam folder recently? The upswing in gambling spam is marked and not surprisingly. After all, only law abiding gambling companies will obey the anti internet gambling laws. The less scrupulous offshore operators have always used spam as a way to market their wares and now have surely opened the flood gates. Identifing these spam emails and tracking down the senders is much too big job for Canadian and American authorities combined. This reminds me of another type of spam email that the US government would love to see gone; offers to sell illegal prescription drugs. But that is a subject that the Canadian government has a slightly different opinion.
