Canadian Senator's Anti-Sports Betting Advertisement Bill off To Committee
Canada's chamber of sober 2nd thought is about to take another tough look at imposing nationwide restrictions on online sportsbook advertising.
- Legislation proposing to put nationwide constraints on marketing for online sportsbooks is making progress in Canada's Senate.
- The expense, comparable to one that made development last year, would identify ways to limit sportsbook advertisements, rather of banning them outright.
- S-211 is now headed to the Senate's transportation and interactions committee for further study.
Ontario Sen. Marty Deacon's Bill S-211, the National Framework on Sports Betting Advertising Act, received its second reading last Thursday and was described the chamber's Standing Committee on Transport and Communications.
While Deacon has said a total restriction on advertisements was her "preliminary aspiration, technique and dream," legal concerns about whether the possible harm of marketing mobile sports betting approaches something like that of tobacco triggered a more nuanced approach with the legislation.
Zero chill (allegedly)
However, the proposed law would need the federal government to craft Canada-wide restrictions for the marketing of online sportsbooks, including ways that the amount of such marketing could be restricted.
"I do not think it's embellishment to say that today in Canada, it is difficult to view a sporting event without being motivated to gamble at minutes," Deacon said on June 3.
S-211 is essentially the like Bill S-269, which passed the appointed Senate last November and was waiting for action in the chosen House of Commons before a federal election cleaned the legislative slate clean.
Canada's chamber of sober 2nd thought is about to take another tough look at imposing nationwide restrictions on online sportsbook advertising.
- Legislation proposing to put nationwide constraints on marketing for online sportsbooks is making progress in Canada's Senate.
- The expense, comparable to one that made development last year, would identify ways to limit sportsbook advertisements, rather of banning them outright.
- S-211 is now headed to the Senate's transportation and interactions committee for further study.
Ontario Sen. Marty Deacon's Bill S-211, the National Framework on Sports Betting Advertising Act, received its second reading last Thursday and was described the chamber's Standing Committee on Transport and Communications.
While Deacon has said a total restriction on advertisements was her "preliminary aspiration, technique and dream," legal concerns about whether the possible harm of marketing mobile sports betting approaches something like that of tobacco triggered a more nuanced approach with the legislation.
Zero chill (allegedly)
However, the proposed law would need the federal government to craft Canada-wide restrictions for the marketing of online sportsbooks, including ways that the amount of such marketing could be restricted.
"I do not think it's embellishment to say that today in Canada, it is difficult to view a sporting event without being motivated to gamble at minutes," Deacon said on June 3.
S-211 is essentially the like Bill S-269, which passed the appointed Senate last November and was waiting for action in the chosen House of Commons before a federal election cleaned the legislative slate clean.