The Liqueurs and the Alberta games Commission considers create sites to play poker, Blackjack or to make sports betting on the Internet. The commission thus created two ballots to see if Albertans would approve the project.

Marilyn Carlyle-Helms, spokesman for the commission, said qu they n were only in the early stages of research. She said that they were progressing slowly on this new idea and that nothing was assured.

She warned that media had acted too quickly in claiming that the commission was ready to take a decision now, while it n had qu announced the beginning of the questionnaires by telephone and by Internet 800 Albertans to know s they liked to bet on the net and what games they played.

Currently, the favored games are poker, Blackjack and bingo. The results should be expected for the month of March.

L Alberta projected harvesting $ 1.4 billion this year with the income the games in casinos, video lottery and bingo machines.

MO Elsalhy, a liberal critique on games from paries, said l adding sites of bet on the Internet could harm greatly. There is also d the debate on this subject in order to reduce the dependence of the Government compared the income made with bets of all kinds.

Another Liberal Member, Laurie Blakeman, appoints the concept 'l the most stupid idea' made by the Conservative Government.

Bet on the Internet became a popular method among Governments to increase their income. Unfortunately, instead of compete with other sites, Governments often go protectionist policies to preserve their "gold mines".

France, Germany and some other European countries have already been warned by the European Commission about their protectionist policies in what relates to games to bet online.

L the WTO (WTO) repeatedly cited the United States for their protectionist practices for bets on horses on the Internet. Indeed, the Americans had made illegal sites of paries d other countries, while promoting U.S. sites, as in the case which began in 2003 between l Antigua and Barbuda, against the United States. The final report of l WTO would be had for the month of March 2007.

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