Ontario’s regulated commercial iGaming market has many player supports in place, but one thing it doesn’t have is a simple and effective way for gamblers to cut themselves off from all licensed operators. That will change in 2026, as iGaming Ontario (iGO) will finally launch its long-awaited centralized self-exclusion (CSE) system for players.
As we approach four years since Ontario’s market launched in April 2022, and as it swelled to around 50 operators running more than 80 iGaming sites, iGO President and CEO Joseph Hillier acknowledged that centralized self-exclusion has been a long time coming.
“I think there’s a recognition that we’re overdue for this system,”Hillier told Canadian Gaming Business in an interview.
After a long ramp-up period, it sounds like things are on track for the program to finally go live in 2026.
“I think we’re pretty confident that midway through next year, we’ll be in a position to do our public launch,” said Hillier.
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