This is an exceptionally well done feature by Public Broadcasting in the U.S. It is of both general and local interest in Canada — particularly Ontario. It explores the wisdom of sports gambling (now illegal) and of gambling in general. The two main areas discussed are sports gambling as an invitation to game-fixing, and the moral question of whether governments (as is the case in Ontario) should be haranguing poorer citizens to spend their money on what will be a losing proposition for the vast majority of them. In this discussion, the point is made that people ought to be free to gamble locally (bingo, horse racing, poker etc) but not under the urgent advertising campaigns launched by government. In this province the elaborate and insistent advertising from the Ontario Lottery Gaming Corporation is well known.
