Looking for Lady Luck

In Niagara Falls, a town now as well known for slot machines and blackjack as its famous cataracts, Premier Dalton McGuinty put on his casino pitchman's hat today.

<p>He encouraged more than 200 delegates to the Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario to sneak away from their convention to roll the dice.

<p>"Either you're going to hit it lucky - or my finance minister will."

<p>The remark drew hearty laughs but McGuinty wasn't just kidding.

<p>Bankers and economists are warning that Ontario's economic growth is slowing. And revenues from government-owned casinos are down, thanks in part to the higher Canadian dollar, strict new anti-smoking laws and perceptions that it's difficult to cross the border into Canada from the United States.