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Tobique Gaming Commission
Offshore license
A newly established First Nation regulator in New Brunswick, Canada, issuing its first online gambling licences from late 2023 — genuinely new, and worth treating as such.
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Operators we track here
Offshore license
Regulatory tier
New Brunswick, Canada
Jurisdiction
October 2026
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Operators Licensed by Tobique Gaming Commission
Every brand below has an active licence from Tobique Gaming Commission confirmed in our own records — sorted by AskBigBonus Trust Index.
GoldenPlay
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Sports BettingCasinoSlotscrickettennisbasketballEsportsfootballoddsbonusesLicence 0000011 · Status: active
FortunePlay
6.4 Trust Index
Sports BettingCasinoSlotsfootballcrickettennisbasketballEsportsoddsbonusesLicence 0000002 · Status: active
Rooster.Bet
6.2 Trust Index
Sports BettingCasinoSlotsfootballcrickettennisbasketballEsportsoddsbonusesLicence 0000002 · Status: active
What Is Tobique Gaming Commission?
The Tobique Gaming Commission (TGC) is the online-gambling regulator of the Tobique First Nation, a Wolastoqey community in New Brunswick, Canada, operating under the Tobique Gambling Act, which took effect on 13 October 2023. It is a materially younger regulator than Kahnawake or Curaçao, having only begun issuing licences from that date.
The Tobique First Nation itself has authorised land-based gaming, including a local casino, for more than three decades — the Commission extends that into online licensing rather than starting from nothing, but its online-specific regulatory track record is still very new.
History & Background
The Tobique Gambling Act was enacted on 13 October 2023, establishing the Commission and its authority to license online gambling operators — making it one of the newest gaming regulators active in the industry as of this page’s last review.
Licence Types
Master licence
A single licence covering casino, sportsbook, poker, eSports, live-dealer, and crypto gambling verticals with no separate per-activity authorisation required.
Licensing Requirements
- Licensees must geo-block consumers in jurisdictions the licence doesn’t cover, including the United States, the United Kingdom, New Brunswick and Ontario themselves, and any FATF-sanctioned country.
- Because the regime is new, published, independently verified detail on specific technical and financial requirements is thinner than for longer-established regulators — we’d rather say that plainly than pad this section with generic licensing language that isn’t specific to Tobique.
Player Protections
- As a newly formed regulator, Tobique doesn’t yet have the multi-year enforcement or dispute-resolution track record that established or top-tier regulators can point to. That isn’t a claim that it has none — only that we don’t have enough independently verified information about its practical enforcement history to describe it with confidence, which is exactly why we class it as offshore.
How to Verify a Licence from Tobique Gaming Commission
- 01Check an operator’s licence status directly with the Tobique Gaming Commission (thetgc.ca), since this is a young regulator with a still-developing public information footprint compared to longer-established authorities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Tobique Gaming Commission a legitimate regulator?
It has a genuine legal basis — the Tobique First Nation has recognised authority to regulate gaming, formalised for online gambling specifically through the Tobique Gambling Act in October 2023. It’s legitimate but very new, which is why we class it as offshore rather than established or top-tier: it hasn’t had the years of operating history that build a real enforcement track record yet.
How new is the Tobique Gaming Commission?
It began issuing online gambling licences under the Tobique Gambling Act, which took effect on 13 October 2023 — making it one of the newest active gambling regulators in the industry. The Tobique First Nation has authorised land-based gaming for over 30 years, but the Commission’s online licensing mandate is recent.
Keep Reading
Licensing status can change. AskBigBonus uses the operator information available in its database and recommends checking the current regulatory record on Tobique Gaming Commission’s own public register before making decisions. This page is informational only, and inclusion of a brand does not constitute an endorsement.