A CONVENIENT DEPARTURE FROM THE TRUTH
16 March 2007
British Columbia's Solicitor General doesn't seem
to know his Internet from his elbow...
Buying lottery tickets through a website isn’t Internet
gambling. That's the opinion of the Solicitor General
for the British Columbia province of Canada, reports
Canada Press.
Solicitor General John Les made the distinction between
ticket sales and playing games like poker online, after
political opponent Guy Gentner accused the B.C. Liberal
government of becoming “gaming crackheads” for plans to
expand casinos and lottery revenues.
“Texas Hold ‘em online, the likes of that,” Les said,
when asked how he defines online gambling. “Right now we
have this PlayNow website and we offer a lottery product
online. That in my definition is not gaming, that’s
simply buying lottery products.”
He added that the PlayNow site limits what players can
spend, implying that this makes lottery purchases online
OK as well.
“If you go to your corner store and gas station and buy
lottery products, there’s no limit,” Les said. “You can
buy $1 000 worth of 6/49 tickets this afternoon, but on
the PlayNow website, the limit is 70 bucks.”
The rather skewed definition shouldn't come as a
surprise - B.C. Lottery Corporation’s revenues from
lottery ticket sales are expected to top $1 billion this
fiscal year, thanks in part to growing sales through the
PlayNow website.
With land casino income projected to climb to $1.24
billion this year and plans to expand more casinos along
the lines of the River Rock Casino in Richmond, Les
denied Gentner’s suggestion that the government is also
looking to expand its [exclusive] offerings to the
Internet.
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