The State’s Insatiable Demand for Money: Quebec to Start Online Gambling Website
February 4, 2010 · By Greg Farries
The Quebec government proves that if you can’t beat them, join them:
Loto-Quebec has received cabinet approval to get into the online gambling business.
The provincial gambling monopoly, in conjunction the BC and Atlantic Lottery Corporations, will set up a site this fall aimed at stemming the lucrative yet unregulated internet gambling market.
And here comes the really laughable part:
Loto-Quebec president and CEO Alain Cousineau says his agency has been trying to fight online gambling sites without success.
Instead the agency’s gambling site will offer a safer alternative, with methods of discouraging problem gamblers.
The State is always about getting more money from the people. Few be there in government who are TRULY of the mindset to make government smaller and keep wealth in the hands of those who create it. This is true in Canada even moreso than in the United States.