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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.