Report MANITOBA - CANADA MANITOBA A GLORIOUS FUTURE
Another province refreshing its stock of video lottery terminals, Manitoba is one of the few to truly adopt online gaming
Manitoba is located in the heart of Canada and is named after a place now called The Narrows which is in the centre of Lake Manitoba.
Fur traders first arrived in this province in the late 17th century and Manitoba became a province in 1870. Today it is a prairie province and its capital and largest city Winnipeg is home to 60 per cent of the population.
The province is bordered between Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west and the territories of Nunavut and Northwest Territories in the north and the US states of North Dakota and Minnesota in the south. Its only connection with a coastline is the Hudson Bay border.
However Manitoba has over 110,000 lakes which cover around 15 per cent of its surface area whilst agriculture plays a huge part in its economy which is based largely on natural resources.
Apart from agriculture the province relies heavily on tourism, energy, oil, mining and forestry. Around 12 per cent of Canadian farmland is in Manitoba with cattle farming the most popular whilst the province is the nation’s largest producer of sunflower seed and dry beans.
Manufacturing accounts for 12 per cent of GDP and Manitoba is home to Canada’s largest firms for furniture, doors, windows and cabinetry.
The province’s economy posted the second strongest growth in the country this year and has seen a growth of 2.9 per cent. Unemployment is around 5.4 per cent.
Meanwhile polar bear and Beluga whale watching is a huge tourist pull and Manitoba is the only province with an Arctic deep water seaport.
Tourism is a $1.26bn industry and represents around 2.9 per cent of the province’s GDP with some 8.6 million visitors annually.
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MANITOBA LOTTERIES Gambling began in Manitoba in the 1970s when the lottery began. Today it is controlled by the Manitoba Lotteries Corporation which owns the province’s two casinos and VLT network and also distributes and sells tickets for the lotteries which are operated by the Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC) and the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation (ILC). It is also the exclusive supplier of breakopen tickets and bingo paper in Manitoba.
The Western Canada Lottery Corporation was established in 1974 and is a partnership of three Prairie Provinces – Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta with the three territories participating as associate members.
WCLC is responsible for providing lottery products and central gaming system for the Prairie Provinces.
The ILC is an umbrella organisation created by all 10 provinces to operate lottery games on a national basis and coordinate the draws and prize funding for two national games Lotto 6/49 and Lotto Max. There are some 865 lottery outlets across Manitoba which offer anything from breakopen tickets to lottery tickets and products include Lotto 6/49, Lotto Max, Extra, Scratch n Win, Pick 3, Keno, Pro-Line, Props and Pools and Double Play. Lottery revenue for 2012 was $2.8m and Manitoba Lotteries’ share of the profit of BCLC was $67.7m.
Manitoba Lotteries total revenues (including WCLC) reached $569m last year with a net income of $338m. This was compared to $562m and $321m respectively the year previously. Meanwhile total gaming revenue reach $702m with a net income of $410m.
Through these operations the revenues are directed back into the province to support health and education programmes. In 2011/12 Manitoba Lotteries provided over $342m for such causes plus $5.9m to NPOs and $4.3m to
The Lotteries and
Gaming Control Act was passed in
Manitoba in 1980 and replaced the
Manitoba Lotteries Act as well as establishing the
Manitoba Lotteries and Gaming
Licensing Board.
responsible gaming programmes.
Meanwhile local governments receive annual grants from VLT revenues and in 2010/11 this amounted to $16.5m which was 10 per cent of VLT revenues.
A further 25 per cent of VLT revenues was redirected into local economic development projects and this amounted to $47.3m. The company generates some 4,000 jobs in the province.
The Lotteries and Gaming Control Act was passed in Manitoba in 1980 and replaced the Manitoba Lotteries Act as well as establishing the Manitoba Lotteries and Gaming Licensing Board.
Meanwhile the Manitoba Lotteries and the Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries Corporation merged earlier this year to streamline the business and save costs and will undergo an organisational reshuffle this year.
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