However, the current NDP government is taking its time and it pulled out 200 for over a decade. The plan was to remove 200 VLTs by attrition in a short time. All of which to keep revenue flowing into provincial coffers.īack in 2011, the NDP government of Darrell Dexter stated that it will follow the example of the previous Conservative government of removing VLTs when a site hosting them closes down. The local government vowed to decrease VLT offerings and instead has just relocated them across provinces and updated them. King’s Journalism’s six-part investigation finds that the Atlantic Lottery Corporation has failed to keep its previous promise of reducing the number of VLTs in the Atlantic region.
