Roger Lagassé is a candidate in the current election of the Sunshine Coast Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. His campaign was announced in a news release in October, 2011 published on his facebook account at http://www.facebook.com/rogerlagasse

He has been district principal

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 for aboriginal

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 education

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, librarian

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, teacher

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 and author

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. He co-authored several French children's books published by Éditions des Plaines in Manitoba

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, Canada

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: la Petite jument blanche, 1981, Le Sorcier, 1986; Tit-Jean l'intrépide, 1993. In 1990 he paddled a single kayak from Sechelt to Nanaimo, BC in the Save Georgia Strait Marathon to bring attention to environmental and nuclear weapons issues. He also helped establish Tetrahedron Provincial Park and Spipiyus Provincial Park and, as part of the Friends of Caren, helped find the first active marbled murrelet nest in Canada. Lagassé also planned and taught a Francophone public school online course in BC First Nations Studies for secondary school students in British Columbia starting in 2007.

Lagassé was a candidate at the 1989 New Democratic Party leadership convention placing last with 53 votes. His campaign centred around children's rights, green issues and peace.

In the 2011 federal election he was the Progressive Canadian Party

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 candidate in West Vancouver–Sunshine Coast–Sea to Sky Country coming in fifth in a field of nine candidates with 293 votes. His antiwar, anti-imperialist campaign centred around bringing Canadian troops home and redirecting funds to public education, housing, health care and public transportation.