Online gambling a sure bet for Ottawa's coffers - Toronto Star

[I Heart Gambling Online]

There was a terrific piece on 60 Minutes Sunday, in conjunction with an investigation by the Washington Post, examining cheating in the world of online poker.

Not everyone will be shocked to learn of cheating – call it fraud – in activities that fly under the legal radar.

Telling, at least here, was that the trail leads right to the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve, just south of Montreal.

Internet gambling operations handling more than $18 billion a year – and growing every month – operate out of the reserve while our government stands by, terrified to intervene and enforce the law. Everyone remembers nearby Oka in 1990. An on-camera interview with a spokesperson was blunt. He said the Kahnawake are "not Canadians'' but independent people and not subject to Canadian law.

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