Meet Jameel Houssian, one of the very worst gambling addicts in the history of the province of Alberta. Jameel Houssian is addicted to Video Lottery Terminals, known as VLTs.
This individual is heavily in arrears for court ordered child support payments, to credit card companies, private loan companies and many establishments where he has illegally secured loans. Houssian has many times forged cheques and deposited them into several chartered banks. He then takes out the cash to gamble.
Houssian deliberately avoids paying his court ordered child maintenance at any and every opportunity. He does not comply with any court order because his gambling addiction is so deeply rooted. If video lottery terminals are the crack cocaine of gambling addiction, Jameel Houssian is clearly among the worst of addicts.
Houssian has bragged to other gambling addicts that the Alberta Maintenance Enforcement Program 'can't do a thing' to him and that he has found many new ways to avoid having his paycheques garnished. He shares this information with other persons who are in arrears for court ordered support payments.
Like all gambling addicts, Jameel Houssian is in denial that he has a problem and constantly brags that he wins money each time he goes to any of the casinos located in Alberta. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Jameel Houssian loses each and every time he entered a gambling establishment and does not leave until he has lost every dollar in his pocket, as well as the pockets of other people.
It is estimated that Jameel Houssian has lost over 1.5 million dollars to casinos in Alberta since becoming addicted to video lottery terminals and other forms of gambling when video lottery terminals came to Alberta gaming establishments.
In the United States, any individual in arrears for court ordered child support payments would be barred from entry to any licensed gambling establishment.
It's about time that Canada did the same. Is anyone in The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission going to admit there is a problem here? Inquiring minds want to know.
Any person in the province of Alberta who is in arrears for court ordered support payments needs to be barred entry into any gambling establishment.
