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Connecticut’s two Native American tribes are dropping their long-stalled plans for building a new casino in East Windsor — potentially paving the way for a broader solution on sports betting and gambling issues across the state.

The Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes announced Wednesday that they are temporarily disbanding their long-held plans for an East Windsor casino at a time when the gambling market has shrunk significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The casinos have been operating at only 25% capacity during the pandemic as the tribes have installed social distancing practices at the facilities that are two of the largest casinos in the world.

Attendance has been down overall as some gamblers are reluctant to head to the casinos, cutting into the profits for the tribes.

The tribes are reserving the right to construct the Tribal Winds casino in East Windsor in the future, but they have now made a public statement in advance of the 2021 legislative session that they have no immediate plans to build there.

“We’ve been through so many ups and downs when it comes to the Tribal Winds project,” the tribes said Wednesday in a joint statement. “There have been many moments where it was clear the easiest path would be to just walk away. And while there’s no way we could have accounted for this latest delay, we still believe Tribal Winds is a viable project that will come to fruition once markets improve and we’ve taken concrete steps toward restoring normal business operations.”

Gov. Ned Lamont has been pushing the tribes to drop their plans for East Windsor in order to avoid litigation from MGM Resorts International, which operates a casino only several miles away in Springfield. Lamont has said repeatedly that long-running lawsuits would stop any progress that the state wants to make on gambling.

With East Windsor sidelined, some lawmakers believe that the state can reach an overall solution with the tribes that they have been seeking for years.

Lamont had hoped for a resolution during the last legislative session, but that was short-circuited when the session was essentially suspended in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. The state Capitol has remained closed to the general public ever since. Before that short-circuiting, Lamont had spoken optimistically about a deal.

“Look, the rest of the country and all our neighboring states are working hard on sports betting, iLottery and some of the other things that we need to do to make us competitive in this growing economy,” Lamont said at the time. “I want to do that in association with the tribes. … We’re doing that in collaboration and doing it in a way that mitigates the risk of a lawsuit.”

But the tribes repeatedly rejected Lamont’s call for dropping the East Windsor casino that they had sought for years.

“I’d like a global agreement,” the governor said at the time. “But in the meantime, I’m going to take what I can get.”

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Once seen as a leader in the talks on sports betting, Connecticut has fallen behind other states. Lawmakers were talking about sports betting even before the landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in a New Jersey case allowed each state to make its own decisions.

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In 2017, Connecticut lawmakers said they were far ahead of other states in laying the groundwork to prepare for sports betting. A representative from Major League Baseball said in April 2018 that Connecticut had the chance to pass model legislation that would be emulated by other states. In that month, former New York Mets star pitcher Al Leiter and Boston Celtics star Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell came to the state Capitol to tout the benefits of sports betting. But those days have passed as other states have legalized sports betting ahead of Connecticut.

Upon closing in mid-March, the tribes furloughed thousands of workers at their casinos, which generate millions of dollars in salaries and revenues in southeastern Connecticut. The two casinos reached their peak in the 2007 fiscal year when they paid the state an all-time high of $430 million in an ongoing slot-machine agreement, but that number is now expected to drop to $247 million in the current fiscal year that ends on June 30. The totals are also projected to drop further in each of the next three years as competition in the Northeast continues from casinos in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York.

The two Connecticut casinos employ more than 12,000 workers when at peak operations, while many more are employed in the delivery of products and supplies to two of the world’s largest gambling operations.

The state has had cordial relations with the tribes for more than 25 years under Govs. Lowell P. Weicker, John G. Rowland, M. Jodi Rell, Dannel P. Malloy and Lamont. But neither Malloy nor Lamont have been able to reach a final agreement on sports betting, despite behind-the-scenes negotiations.

Christopher Keating can be reached at ckeating@courant.com.

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A motion to push a sports betting bill through Parliament has stalled in the House of Commons.

Bill C-13, which would amend the Criminal Code to allow single-game sports betting across Canada, did not receive unanimous consent on the House floor Thursday.

The motion was introduced by Windsor West MP Brian Masse, a longtime supporter of bringing sports betting to Canada. Masse was hoping the House would unanimously pass all three stages of debate in Parliament, but the support he was hoping for did not come through.

Masse said he’s not too worried, yet.

“This legislation is going to pass through the House of Commons with all parties supporting it, one way or another,” said Masse in a media release. “We have debated it for years and have now fallen behind other countries that have already established single-wager sports betting. Let’s not delay it any further and make this law.”

A similar bill is set for a second debate in February with support across the aisle. The private members’ bill, C-218, was introduced by Conservative MP Kevin Waugh of Saskatoon-Grasswood. It was tabled in the House last month, after passing second reading, with support from Liberals like Windsor-Tecumseh MP Irek Kusmierczyk.

The road to Parliament for sports betting legislation has been a long, bumpy one. Former Windsor-Tecumseh MP Joe Comartin first introduced a bill. It passed the House but died on the Order Paper in the Senate when an election was called. Masse reintroduced the legislation in 2011, but it didn’t pass second reading.

With a minority government in place now in Ottawa, the threat of an election call remains in the air, hence Masse’s desire to push through C-13.

“Passing this legislation will take money from the black market and organized crime and allow the proceeds to flow back into the government coffers for social programs like health care and education,” said Masse. “If we can do this immediately, and get it to the provinces and territories, it might help post-Covid with the economic recovery by creating jobs and bringing in new business.”

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Windsor-area union leaders have supported the legislation, which would add at least 100 permanent jobs to Caesars Windsor.