Justice committee  The potential is definitely there. What we understand from other jurisdictions is that the sports betting customer will primarily be a new customer, beyond the reach of what casino customers are now. Generally, if people have a legal option versus an illegal option, they will gravitate towards the legal.

Justice committee  Thank you, Member Findlay. Certainly it's something that we can entertain. We often work closely with our provincial counterparts and regulators on those matters. The online nature of single-event betting that I mentioned earlier gives you the opportunity to put a number of controls in place that way: for time of play and for the amount that could be wagered in any given time period as well.

Justice committee  I would definitely anticipate as we start to design the program that we would do that. We have bet limits on pretty much every form of gaming we provide, and for every form of gaming we provide, we fully inform the customers on the odds and the nature of the game they're playing.

Justice committee  As casino operators, we follow and operate under the guidelines set out through FINTRAC, which basically ensure that there are high standards placed around financial transactions. We have to fill out forms for any transaction over certain dollar thresholds, and people have to verify their source of funds when they're coming to partake on our gaming floors when they bet at certain levels.

Justice committee  Yes. With single-event wagering, you're primarily in an online and mobile context. Your players all have to be registered with you. Then if they have dollar-volume activities in their accounts that exceed certain thresholds, there's further due diligence and information that has to be provided on their source of income and source of funds.

Justice committee  I think there you'd be referring to probably any form of addiction and what that can cause in other environments. Definitely that is not something we want to see. We take a long-term view of the industry. We want our players to be well informed and not to be participating in ways that cause them harm or their behaviour—

Justice committee  Yes. There is considerable data. You'll have speakers coming up who can speak to the small percentage of society with addiction concerns that way. As for taking it beyond that, in terms of what else it may cause, I would not be familiar with any data on that front.

Justice committee  Thank you, Member Fortin. Yes, we're very mainstream with our responsible gaming programs. You can look at our casinos as an example. All of our properties are members of the RG check program. We've reached national accreditation on responsible gaming standards. We are also a member of the GameSense programming that originated out of British Columbia with the lottery corporation there.

Justice committee  Certainly, this has been an impact unlike anything we've ever seen in our business. Definitely, having single-event wagering as an approved form of gambling to incorporate into our business model will really assist us in rebuilding and going forward. It's going to be a whole new world getting our customers back into our building and feeling safe and comfortable.

Justice committee  What we've seen in other jurisdictions.... There are studies out now. At the high end, say, in the U.K. with regard to single-event wagering, a common way to engage broad macro-type revenues is spend per adult annually. In the U.K., they are hitting in the neighbourhood of $75 per adult every year.

Justice committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, and good morning to members of the committee. It's a pleasure to be speaking to you today on the topic of single-event sports wagering. My name is Zane Hansen and I am the president and CEO of the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority, SIGA for short. I will quickly give you some background on our company.