In 1994 the Free Trade and Processing act was passed which allowed companies licenses to open online casinos. In the same year, the first software provider for online gambling was founded.
Online gambling situation in Canada is pretty tricky. The Canadian government does not grant licenses to companies to operate internet casinos. However, there are no specific regulations that prohibit Canadians from playing at online gambling sites hosted in other countries. In this case it has the status of not being illegal. A lot of Canadians participate in online gambling at web-sites that accept flayers who reside in Canada and even allow conducting payment operations in Canadian Dollars. An important point to notice is that in the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, just outside of Montreal, internet gambling is completely legal, and the Kahnawake Gaming Comission is the body that grants online gambling licenses and hosts internet gaming sites. As a result a quite a number of the world's most popular online gambling sites are hosted in Kahnawake.
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Americans spend over 54billion dollars annually on gambling!
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