It has healthy household incomes and its 8.3 % unemployment rate (close to the national average) is
on a downward
trend,
mainly because Guelph has rolled out an
Economic Development and Tourism Strategy, encouraging growth in key sectors such as the life sciences, biotechnology, agri - food firms, environmental and high - tech.
He was immediately criticized
on various fronts by environmentalists, some scientists, and political opponents, who said he was simply recasting existing
economic and technological
trends as change, that he was trying to derail congressional initiatives (promoted
mainly by Democrats and a small cluster of moderate Republicans), and that he was continuing an eight - year pattern of delay in attacking the creeping, but momentous, climate problem.