The Senate sponsor of a bill that would liberalize Canada’s sports-betting laws is hoping to pass the legislation this spring, in order to avoid having to wait what could be years to modernize the country’s gambling laws.

Bill C-218 would end a decades-long prohibition of betting on single-sporting events in Canada…

Wells introduced Bill C-218 in the Senate on Friday, when senators were called in to pass back-to-work legislation for Port of Montreal workers. The Senate has sat infrequently since the pandemic began, but is scheduled to sit for seven of the next eight weeks before Parliament adjourns for the summer.

Bill C-218 could be read a second time as early as Tuesday.