Date of Award
2014
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.H.K.
Department
Kinesiology
Keywords
C-290, policy, rationale, social construction, sport gambling
Supervisor
Victoria Paraschak
Supervisor
Jules Woolf
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Bill C-290, a federal Private Member's Bill introduced on September 28, 2011, aimed to legalize single event sports betting in Canada. This bill passed unanimously through the House of Commons but has been challenged by Senators and remains in limbo to date. Parliament transcripts, newspaper accounts, and interviews were analyzed to identify select rationales that stakeholders, politicians, and media members used to frame their position on Bill C-290. The social construction of this bill was documented and analyzed using duality of structure. Employing critical policy analysis, dominant rationales from existing literature were used to categorize arguments supporting or opposing single event betting. Findings indicated that the most common rationales in support of Bill C-290 - that regulated sports betting would assist in protecting sport and in limiting the impact of organized crime - did not adequately address the most powerful argument against Bill C-290 - that sports betting jeopardizes the integrity of sport.
Recommended Citation
El-Turk, Jimmy, "Social Construction of the Sport-Gambling Relationship: A Case Study of Bill C-290" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5075.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5075