Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries is the Crown corporation of the Canadian province of Manitoba, headquartered in Winnipeg, that operates the province's two Winnipeg casinos, Club Regent and McPhillips Station, its video lottery terminal network, its lottery distribution and the PlayNow.com online casino, sports betting and lottery site, which it offers in Manitoba under an agreement with the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, whose platform it uses. It also runs the province's liquor distribution and retail. As the sole lawful provider of online gambling in Manitoba under the provincial-conduct model, it returns its profits to the provincial government.
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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.
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.