Scott Stinson: The only legal bets available to Canadian sports gamblers are terrible ones, but that may soon change

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A bill introduced on Tuesday would alter the one line in the Criminal Code that prohibits wagering on a single sporting event

It is a curious fact that Canada has permitted legal sports wagering for decades now, but only through provincial lottery systems that offer multi-event parlay bets at odds that would cause a bookie to blush.But that may be about to change.

New Jersey alone reported more than $US540-million in legal wagers last month, an increase of more than 70 per cent from a year earlier, a number that has essentially created an overnight, auxiliary Las Vegas.

As flip-flops go, this is one of the flippiest. When that bill that would have legalized single-sports betting made it to the Senate in 2012, it was the professional leagues that offered strident opposition. The NHL’s submission to those hearings said single-game betting “poses perhaps the greatest threat to the integrity of our games.

 

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