He served as ambassador to Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua, and at the time of his death, he was the communications director for the Liberal Party of Canada.
In the 1990s, he joined the Privy Council Office in Intergovernmental Affairs to specifically work on the unity file.
[1] Following his diplomatic appointment, he joined the International Union for Conservation of Nature near Geneva, before returning to Ottawa in 2009 to take the job of Director of Communications to Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.
[2] Laguë was killed on the morning of August 12, 2010, when his motorcycle crashed into an SUV, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, as he was on his way to work.
He died at the age of 52 leaving behind his wife, novelist Caroline Vu, and two children.