No reopening date in the cards for B.C.'s online casino

Marten Youssef and Rebecca Lindell Vancouver —Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010

The online casino of the B.C. Lottery Corporation has been out of commission for a week following a security glitch – and the government says it has no idea when the site will resume operations. Housing and Social Development Minister Rich Coleman declined to give a timeline of when the problem would be fixed. Asked how much this delay has cost the province, he said, “Oh, not a lot because it wasn’t expected to be a huge revenue generator in the first couple days anyway. And, frankly, it doesn’t matter what the cost is. We had an issue with the technical side of it and it needs to be fixed.” The minister asserted a third party would be conducting an evaluation to ensure a security breach would not be repeated.