“These comments were made through social media, and based on the information available, the individuals posting them did not participate directly in the engagement activities or submit feedback through the formal engagement channels,” the report reads. “As such, these comments may provide some indication of online sentiment but are distinct from the structured engagement feedback summarized in this report.”
While the 29 community responses are a “modest” number, the feedback was thoroughly considered and included in the report, Rice said, with key identified themes, including a need for EGD revenue to go towards infrastructure and service improvements, and for regulations, standards, and vetting processes to be tightly managed.
“We will definitely continue to engage the community on how they want to see gaming revenues benefit and be reinvested,” he said.
“There’s obviously areas of improvement, I think we need to do a better job as the MCK of communicating the community benefit and the reinvestment plans for infrastructure and local improvements.”
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Rice said that next steps will see continued meetings about the viability of locations and the opening of the licensing process via the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC).
“We want to grow gaming, both land-based and online, but we want to grow it in a responsible and managed way,” he said. “We want to keep being very aware of the infrastructure pieces and the regulatory pieces, and all of the feedback we got in the engagement report.”
The full report is available to view online.