Last year, I wrote an article on the legal framework of Canada’s online gaming industry, specifically discussing the concept of the “Foreign Operators’ Principle” and how they legally offer their i-gaming products to Canadians without facing criminal prosecution.[1]

So how can it be, therefore, that “offshore” operators accept Canadian facing business without suffering any legal consequences unlike several of them did a few years back in the United States? The answer is simple– by way of the “Foreign Operators Principle”.

Thanks to Canada’s ‘Foreign Operators Principle,’ offshore operators are left to freely target Canadian consumers with online gambling products; meanwhile the Canadian provinces, many of which have launched their own...