Having helped lead numerous political campaigns he continues to work with community groups on social and environmental issues.
After spending some years in the private sector as a software developer he returned to academia to work in bioinformatic research at Simon Fraser University.
Some notable accomplishments while working with NWEP are the implementation of an anti-idling bylaw,[4] a cosmetic pesticide ban,[5] pedestrian safety improvements at New Westminster SkyTrain Station[6] and a Sustainability Documentary Film Festival.
[8] In conjunction with his NWEP work, Laird was a leader of the campaign to stop TransLink's United Boulevard Extension project.
[10] Laird was the co-founder of RecallBC,[11][12] a non-partisan organization which failed in a number of attempts to recall BC Liberal MLAs.
At the civic level, Laird served as the president of the Quayside Community Board in 2010, a New Westminster resident's association representing 4,000 condo and townhouse owners.