According to your editorial, Business report shows optimism (April 26), the 2018
Business Insights Report finds that local businesses are optimistic about their future.
Certainly they would be even more optimistic if our people were spending more money in local shops and restaurants.
When someone comes into a lottery windfall, such as the Tumbler Ridge woman who recently reaped $10 million, everyone is happy for that winner. The media celebrate the winner's joy but few give thought to the more millions dropped a few dollars at a time to accumulate that windfall. A fortune is diverted daily, a few dollars at a time, in lottery kiosks and scratch tickets across our town and nation.
I doubt that anyone has studied the full effect that siphoning gambling money
from our local economy has on northern businesses. Every dollar gambled on tickets or in a casino is another that does not flow through the local economy, maintaining jobs and profits for local businesses.
James Loughery
Prince George
