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Patrick Harris
Rubicon Strategy
4th Vice-President of the Ontario PC Party and associate at Rubicon Strategy. Registered as a lobbyist for the Canadian Online Gaming Alliance (COGA), a lobbying umbrella created to represent three offshore online gambling companies — Bet365, GVS, and Microgaming Systems — while simultaneously holding a senior party role.
Connected Scandals
Doug Ford's government launched Canada's first private online gambling market in 2022 — having first eliminated Ontario's only independent gambling research body in 2019, and immediately after handing lucrative lobbying contracts to his own campaign manager and vice-chair. A 2026 peer-reviewed study found a 317% surge in young men aged 15–24 seeking help for gambling addiction, while the province collects a quarter-billion dollars a year in gaming revenue.
Registered lobbyist for the Canadian Online Gaming Alliance (representing Bet365, GVS, and Microgaming — offshore operators from Gibraltar and the Isle of Man) while serving as 4th Vice-President of the PC Party. His lobbying registration initially did not disclose the names of the three gambling companies COGA represented, according to the Globe and Mail.
Connected Companies
President of Rubicon Strategy; as a Rubicon lobbyist he represented the Canadian Online Gaming Alliance in pushing for Ontario's iGaming market opening.
https://rubiconstrategy.com/