Background
Laughren's childhood was far removed from the corridors of financial power. His hometown of Shawville was low-income and culturally isolated, rigidly anglophone and Protestant working-class in a francophone region. Laughren's father, a farm labourer, was said to have been illiterate.
Laughren was educated at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute and York University. Before entering politics, he taught economics at Cambrian College in Sudbury.
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