Stephen Harper: Darrell Dexter

Halifax Dept: HALIFAX - Stephen Harper's refusal to meet with the premiers dampens the chances of economic progress for provinces struggling with tepid growth and rising debt, several of the provincial leaders said ahead of Friday's discussion in Halifax, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "There is a difference when he is here," Ghiz said late Thursday after arriving in the port city and premier Darrell Dexter speaks to reporters in Halifax on Wednesday, November 21, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan Robert Ghiz, the premier of Prince Edward Island, said he would have welcomed the prime minister's ideas at the table on how to improve the country's "sluggish" economic growth. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.