Member of Parliament Brian Masse’s latest attempt to allow Canadian citizens to bet on individual sporting events has come to nothing after his proposed legislation was voted down by the House of Commons.
Masse saw his private members’ bill C-221, originally introduced in February, voted down by the Commons, with 133 MPs voting in favour and 156 against.
The bill aimed to amend Paragraph 207(4)(b) of Canada’s Criminal Code to allow the government of a province, or a person or [...]