Two senators are calling on the federal government to ban advertising for sports betting in Canada.
A letter to the prime minister from Charlottetown Sen. Percy Downe and Waterloo Sen. Marty Deacon asks the government to have the CRTC ban all advertising for sports gambling apps and websites. It is supported by 40 other senators.
The letter says people of all ages who are exposed to the stream of ads are being influenced to turn their phone into “a pocket-sized casino.”
It also references a CBC Marketplace report that found gambling messages fill up, on average, 21 per cent of a sporting event’s broadcast runtime.
Ive noticed this too, some of the ads I’ve heard on the radio are similar to the ads in the US where the disclaimer and side effects warnings are longer than the ad itself.
Yeah this wasn’t really a thing just two years ago, I wonder what changed…