Loto-Québec is the Crown corporation responsible for gaming in the province of Quebec, established in 1969 and headquartered in Montreal. It was created to bring gambling under state control and away from illegal operators and organised crime, a founding rationale that still shapes how Quebec frames gambling policy. It runs draw games and scratch cards, casinos and gaming halls, bingo, video lottery terminals and online gambling through its Espacejeux platform. Its subsidiary the Société des casinos du Québec operates the province's four government casinos: the Casino de Montréal, the Casino du Lac-Leamy, the Casino de Mont-Tremblant and the Casino de Charlevoix. Quebec has not followed Ontario in opening its online market to licensed private competition, so Espacejeux remains the only provincially sanctioned online option.
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Four provincial lottery corporations asked the Supreme Court of Canada on 7 October to overturn the ruling that would let Ontario's poker and fantasy players sit at the same tables as players abroad. The nine judges reserved judgment, and no date has been set for a decision.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who praised a Liberal plan to license every online gambling site in Quebec, will lead the province with 59 of 127 seats. His party's budget plan books CA$300 million a year from sports betting sites, but a campaign endorsement is not a bill.
Ontario will defend its plan to pool poker and fantasy players with other jurisdictions against four Crown lottery corporations, which say it is Ontario conducting gaming outside Ontario. Alberta, Flutter, GGPoker's parent and the Canadian Gaming Association will be heard as interveners. Every other province's monopoly turns on the answer.
Ontario wants to open its poker and daily fantasy sports markets to players across borders. Four lottery corporations say that would break the law. Canada's Supreme Court will now decide who is right.