Nova Scotia Canada Wants To Protect Online Punters

Canada is one very large country with diverse demographics and cultural variety. Along with all the geography comes political differences and the lack of one common identity. Traveling from one end of the nation to another there are numerous dialects and customs that range from very British to very French.
Online gambling has been taking off as the show of choice in Canada and certain provinces are grappling with the pros and cons of introducing this form of entertainment to their citizens.
Within the province of Quebec the Mohawk nation hosts one of the largest online gambling jurisdictions in the world, licensing and regulating many of the planet's top online gambling operations.
British Columbia has launched it's web oriented casino offering with a glitch that sent the reels tumbling and shut it down before it really got started.
Controversial comments by Newfoundland, Labrador Prime Minister Danny Williams put a certain end to plans for an online offering in that province.
Now Nova Scotia's finance minister has weighed in on the issue commenting in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report stating Nova Scotia may launch its own online gambling website to protect gaming addicts who are at "the mercy" of unregulated, offshore sites.
Graham Steele defended his government's position stating, "They (offshore web gambling sites) don't care if somebody's got a problem. They don't care that the money is leaving Nova Scotia. There are no 'problem gambling' resources,"  
Critics of the Nova Scotia plan the Game Over group are voicing their concerns. Group spokesperson Debbie Langille said, "It's a shameful source of revenue," adding,  "There are more social costs than there are for the revenue being brought in."
Finance Minister Steele, said to CBC, "They're spending millions of dollars. So it's not a case of saying, 'Should we be in it or not?' Nova Scotians are in it in a big way, but in an unregulated environment,"