Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses today.
My question is for National Hockey League officials.
In your 2014 brief on the study of Bill C-290, which is very similar to the one under consideration today, you indicated that those who bet using foreign gambling establishments or illegal bookmakers would likely continue to do so, because government-regulated casinos could never offer the same convenience or odds as foreign and illegal betting organizations.
Subsequently, you indicated that illegal betting would only exacerbate the interest of new bettors in this type of betting, who would start on legal platforms and end up on illegal ones.
Do you maintain this position, that legalizing single sports betting will ultimately only benefit illegal platforms?