Windsor chamber of commerce pushing for legalized sports betting!

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http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/05/23/windsor-chamber-pushes-for-single-sports-betting-in-ottawa/

The local Chamber of Commerce went to Ottawa Thursday to help push for what it considers a good bet: single-sports wagering.

Matt Marchand, president and CEO of the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce, stressed to lawmakers and others how much border cities such as Windsor stand to gain from expanded sports betting.

“Combined with tax-free gaming winnings, single-sports betting would provide Caesars Windsor with a very important competitive advantage in the market place,” Marchand told the Star by phone between meetings. “It would translate into jobs and economic development and more reasons for people to come to Windsor, spend the weekend, get a hotel room and enjoy the region.”

 

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That would be sweet, except the view is of Detroit.

 

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That would be sweet, except the view is of Detroit.

Detroits skyline isn't ugly. It looks great from Windsor.

Detroit nehborhoods < Windsor neighborhoods.


I remember when the casino in Niagara Falls opened and was filled with American visitors, NY State said they would NEVER allow casinos. They changed their tune a few years later watching all those US Dollars flowing into the Canadian economy.

If sports betting becomes legal in Canada (which it will, just a matter of when) it will put pressure on nearby Michigan and New York to follow or lose out.