At least one CEO in Canada is admitting that he wants online gambling to be open for Canadian casinos. The CEO cited interesting reasoning. He stated that the casino market in Canada was basically saturated already. The only way to ensure revenue growth to maintain staffs and customer service, he reported, is to open up online casinos. The approach is interesting, but from the CEO of a business that is established to make money maybe there is little greater statement.
It is quite possible that Canada may change their rules soon. Statistics show that they are losing millions of dollars in revenue each year to off-shore online casinos. That is not a pleasant thought to a number of people including some people that make the laws.
The country reportedly already has a quite viable model for regulation, and that does tend to be one of the things that does inhibit such changes. Those statistics mentioned above do seem to illustrate a desire on the part of the people to participate in such activity as well. With so many factors showing a decided support it may only be a matter of time before Canada opens up to the frontier of the online casinos and gambling.
With the neighbor so close to the north any decisive and official move in Canada may add pressure to The United States, which has had World Trade Organization rulings and general negative sentiment leveled against it as it slowly side-steps actions directly against or for online casinos. With Mexico and Canada both open to online gambling it might make for the first America as the awkward odd-man-out sandwich for the nation that has repeatedly stood-up to the world.
The action in the Western Hemisphere is not the only action in regard to online gambling. A number of nations around the globe seem poised to make a move. Most nations that seem to be making efforts, it should be noted, seem to be looking at solid ground to move on toward official regulation and the result of cross border online gambling.
The world will see, but hopefully the people of the world will clearly say what they want and the leaders clearly act on it. Perhaps there will be an online gambling migration movement with all the would-be players moving to the nations that allow it and other nations left with those that are glad to be rid of it. Well, maybe not ... but that is the point of borders right?