History of Gaming Regulation

1995

The Lottery Policy Review Working Group is established, headed by Larry Desjardins. The 1993 VLT moratorium is further tightened pending the results of the policy review.

A second prevalence study shows a prevalence rate of 4.2 per cent.

Gaming evolves

Permanent casinos and VLTs join lottery tickets, bingo and breakopen tickets. Manitoba starts to review distribution of revenues and the incidence of problem gaming.