Mohawks Offer Partnership

May 9, 2008

It seems that both Ottawa and Quebec City have been offered a lucrative partnership and chose to turn it down. The Kahnawake Mohawks say that they had offered a spot to the cities and there was a draft document to that effect submitted. However, the province rejected the offer.

The online gambling giants say that they did not want to partner with the tribe to they didn’t offer again. It all came down at a time when the tribe was launching Mohawk Internet Technologies, or MIT. This was also shortly after the Parti Québécois government thought about a reorganization of the rights of the tribe to handle the online gambling operations.

Both Canada and Quebec say that only Quebec has jurisdiction over the online gambling group, but this has not stopped MIT from operating without being challenged on that belief. As more people within Canada say that they would like to see online gambling prohibited, there are other options that come up.

Those that say that online gambling should continue want to see horse racing tracks, etc. able to participate in gambling as well. Those acting on behalf of the Kahnawake tribe say that the tribe should be recognized as a “legitimate aboriginal activity under the Canadian constitution.”

They say that they have been passed back and forth between the two entities, but still nothing has been made official. They say that they are in a kind of limbo, and can’t get out of it until the government makes some sort of decision.

 

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