OLG's CEO Stephen Rigby announced it was cancelling Queen's Park's request for proposals for the lotto business 'in favour of a revised modernization approach.' ( Hand-out / Ontario Lottery and Gaming )Queen’s Park has cancelled a high-stakes scheme to cash in on the sale of the province’s $3.8-billion-a-year lottery business. The surprise news came shortly after Premier Kathleen Wynne released the mandate letters for her ministers Friday outlining the government’s agenda for the next 20 months before the 2018 election. “Your specific priorities include delivering on the balanced budget plan,” Wynne told Sousa in her letter. The plan, which will outline how Ontario generates and procures electricity, must have a “continued focus on energy affordability for homes and buinsesses,” Wynne wrote to him.

Source: thestar September 23, 2016 16:08 UTC