19-Jan-07. Their gambling divide. Globe and Mail, A12.

This editorial says that two Canadian businessmen recently arrested as part of a U.S. crackdown on Internet gambling have broken no laws in either Canada or Britain, where the company there were involved with is based. The impetus for the arrests was legislation passed in October that made online gambling a crime in the United States. The editorialist says that permitting and encouraging gambling when it takes place at a physical venue in the United States but outlawing on the Internet is absurd.